6th Circuit Opinions & Cases | National Law Review

The United States Sixth Circuit includes the states of: Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, and Michigan. The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is the Potter Stewart US Courthouse in Cincinnati, OH. Michigan and Kentucky are further broken down to the Eastern/Western Districts. Tennessee is broken down to Eastern/Western/Northern District, and Ohio is broken down into the Northern/Southern Districts.

The US Court of Appeals for the sixth circuit is in Cincinnati. Kentucky’s Eastern District Court is in Lexington and Western District is in Louisville. Michigan’s Eastern District Court is in Detroit and Western District is in Grand Rapids. The Northern District Court in Ohio is in Cleveland and Southern District in Columbus. The Eastern District Court in Tennessee is in Knoxville, Middle District in Nashville, and Western District in Memphis, TN.

Currently there are 16 active judges and 12 senior judges which make up the bench in the Sixth Circuit Court System. Elena Kagan is the Circuit Judge on the Supreme Court, and Ransey Guy Cole Jr is the Chief Justice for the Sixth Circuit. President William Howard Taft was the only individual to be president and serve as the Chief Justice for the Circuit Court, where he presided over the Sixth Circuit.

American Civil Liberties Union v National Security Agency (2007) is one of the famous cases to come out of this Circuit. The court in this case held that plaintiffs didn’t have proper standing to bring the lawsuit against the NSA. They could not present evidence that they were “targets” of the TSP (Terrorist Surveillance Program). The Appellate court reversed the lower court’s ruling finding that plaintiffs could not prove they were or would be subject to surveillance by the NSA.

The Sixth Circuit has seen plenty of litigation going through the circuit and appellate level in recent years. From mergers & acquisitions, to recent reversals on lower-court cases, the circuit is highly influential in setting precedent in its own district, and throughout the US. The Sixth Circuit is also known for its high rate of reversals at the US Supreme Court level, as a total of 24 out of the 25 times, from October 2008 and ending in June 2013, cases were overturned, making it the highest overturn rate in the US.

The National Law Review covers a broad range of cases decided in the Sixth Circuit Government Surveillance, bankruptcy litigation, tax-court appeals, jurisdictional rights of parties to a lawsuit, class action lawsuits, opioid addiction and drug cases, and cases dealing with employee/employer lawsuits and employee rights. The National Law Review covers general information detailing appointments in the Sixth Circuit, Agency News (NLRB, EEOC, DOJ, DoD, etc.), and the latest lawsuits in the Circuit Court System.

Date	Title	Organization
13 Jan	Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in Challenge to Michigan’s Alcohol Delivery Law	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
7 Jan	Defend Trade Secrets Act Supports Sealing Information on Appeal	McDermott Will & Emery
18 Dec	TCPA NIGHTMARE: Court Grants $122k Summary Judgment Against Debt Collector for Using Noble Predictive Dialer to Contact Revoking Debtor– CEO Must Face Jury on Personal Liability	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
16 Dec	Assessing the Amount in Controversy When Seeking to Vacate an Arbitral Award	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
15 Dec	Is Title IX’s deliberate-indifference standard a question of law for the court to decide? Yes—at least “in an appropriate case,” says the en banc Sixth Circuit.	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
10 Dec	Two Turntables, No Microphone: Using Technical Diagram Is Not Copyright Infringement	McDermott Will & Emery
6 Dec	Sixth Circuit Stays Injunction in Challenge to Kentucky Public Health Measures That Did Not Exempt Religious Schools From General Prohibition on In-Person Instruction.	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
1 Dec	Employers, Check Your Plan Documents for Claims Procedures	Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
23 Nov	Content May Soon Run Out	McDermott Will & Emery
10 Nov	Sixth Circuit Backs Termination of Public Employee for Racially Derogatory Social Media Post on 2016 Presidential Election	Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
9 Nov	The Challenges of Courthouse Operations in a Pandemic	McDermott Will & Emery
9 Nov	Sixth Circuit Rules Lenders Cannot Rely on Borrowers to Satisfy ‘Ability to Repay’ Rule Under TILA	Greenberg Traurig, LLP
2 Nov	Exigent Circumstances in S.D. Ohio	McDermott Will & Emery
29 Oct	ANOTHER ONE!: N.D. Ohio Follows Creasy– Rules TCPA Unconstitutional as Applied to Calls Pre-July, 2020	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
29 Oct	No Double Recovery by Class Members: Revocation Class Stricken as Duplicative of No Consent Class	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
27 Oct	Tennessee Election Officials’ Motion to Stay Injunction “Too Little, Too Late,” So First-Time Voters May Continue to Vote by Mail	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
19 Oct	The First Amendment: Legal and Practical Considerations for Schools in 2020	von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
12 Oct	Hospital Granted Summary Judgment on Surgeon’s Discrimination Claims	Jackson Lewis P.C.
12 Oct	In staying injunction, the Sixth Circuit effectively upholds Ohio’s limitation of ballot drop boxes to one per county	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
8 Oct	By the Book: Unauthorized Material Doesn’t Forfeit Training Guide’s Copyright Protection	McDermott Will & Emery
2 Oct	Sixth Circuit Practice Tip: You Can’t Renew a Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law Never Made in the First Place.	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
28 Sep	Opioid Update: Sixth Circuit Reverses Order Certifying a Negotiation Class	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
25 Sep	Federal Court Puts Employee Suit Under Wrong COVID Statute Behind Bars	Barnes & Thornburg LLP
23 Sep	The US First, Fifth, and Sixth Circuits Render Recent Decisions That Analyze the Enforceability of Restrictive Covenants in Employment Agreements, Teaching Employers Some Valuable Lessons	Jones Walker LLP
11 Sep	The Court Of Appeals Doesn’t Know All the Information About aA Case Unless the Parties Teach It (Even If Everyone Else in the Case Does).	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
11 Sep	Use Your Noodle: Assistant Manager Sues Over COVID-19 Related Termination	Barnes & Thornburg LLP
11 Sep	Sixth Circuit Calls NLRB-Ordered Public Notice Reading Into Question	Barnes & Thornburg LLP
4 Sep	Sixth Circuit Defers to Real-World Umpires in Dismissal of Kentucky Derby Case	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
3 Sep	Use of Infringing Product, Misappropriated Trade Secrets May Continue—for a Licensing Fee	McDermott Will & Emery
2 Sep	Federal Court Sparks New Scrutiny of EPA’s Sovereign Immunity in Flint Water Cases	Faegre Drinker
1 Sep	Other Significant Industry Cases	Greenberg Traurig, LLP
31 Aug	Sixth Circuit Re-Affirms Substantive Due Process Claims May Go Forward in Flint Water Cases. Then They Settle.	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
31 Aug	Unacceptable EAD Processing Delays	Mintz
28 Aug	Sixth Circuit Considers Public Employee’s Off-the-Clock Social Media Post in First Amendment Case	Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
26 Aug	Lower Courts Grappling with Deference Principles Following Kisor	Hunton Andrews Kurth
26 Aug	Court Gives Chevron Deference to FCC Amerifactors Ruling and Modifies Class Definition in Junk Fax Case	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
25 Aug	Sixth Circuit Urges Broader Understanding of “Education” Under Title IX	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
21 Aug	Race to the Top: Trademark Litigation in the Equine Industry	Greenberg Traurig, LLP
18 Aug	TCPA Litigation Update — The Sixth Circuit Sides with Ninth and Second Circuits in Holding that a Stored Number Device is an ATDS Under the TCPA Even if it Cannot Randomly Generate Numbers	Mintz
12 Aug	Sixth Circuit Tips the Scale in Split Over What Constitutes an Autodialer Under the TCPA	Proskauer Rose LLP
11 Aug	No Guarantee to Supplemental Jurisdiction: Court Declines to Exercise Jurisdiction Over Counterclaim	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
11 Aug	The Sixth Circuit Adopts Expansive Interpretation of ATDS	Faegre Drinker
10 Aug	Class Action Litigation Newsletter Summer 2020: Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Circuit	Greenberg Traurig, LLP
5 Aug	Sixth Circuit Broadens Application Of TCPA To Include More Predictive Phone Dialers – For Now	Barnes & Thornburg LLP
31 Jul	The Sixth Circuit Broadly Defines ATDS, Widening The Split Among Circuits Before The Supreme Court Rules Next Year	Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
31 Jul	Sixth Circuit follows Second and Ninth Circuits in finding that an ATDS Encompasses Calls Dialed from a List	Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
31 Jul	Sixth Circuit Construes ‘Automatic Telephone Dialing System' Under TCPA, Adding to Circuit Split	Greenberg Traurig, LLP
30 Jul	U.S. Court Assistance with Foreign Arbitration Discovery: Should it, Will It, Be Allowed?	Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
30 Jul	Keep Up Already!: 3 Quick Graphics Demonstrate the Rapid Evolution of the TCPA’s ATDS Landscape	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
30 Jul	Title IX’s Shifting Landscape	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP