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Failure to Reference Sentencing Guidelines Not Fatal
By Casey C. Sullivan, Esq. | Last updated on
A Mexican citizen who pled guilty to violating U.S. immigration law cannot have his sentence overturned because the district court failed to directly reference...
No Qualified Immunity for Police Who Stunned Ohio Man for 26 Seconds
By Mark Wilson, Esq. | Last updated on
One town over from where your author grew up lies the City of Painesville, Ohio, where in 2010, Painesville police officers electrocuted David Lee Nall with a...
Monitoring Radio Doesn't Turn Meal Breaks Into Work Time: 6th Cir.
By Mark Wilson, Esq. | Last updated on
Meal breaks are generally supposed to be a time when employees aren't working. After all, if they're working during their break, then it's not really a break,...
6th Cir. Year in Review: Top 10 Blog Posts of 2014
By William Peacock, Esq. | Last updated on
Let's play a word association game. I say "Sixth Circuit." You say ... First circuit to rule against gay marriage since Windsor. A circuit that battles the...
Prison Guards' Overtime Suit Dismissed, Despite Novel Arguments
By Mark Wilson, Esq. | Last updated on
The Sixth Circuit today batted away a labor suit brought by the Michigan Corrections Organization, a union of prison correction officers, against the Michigan...
6th Cir. Upholds $13M Award for Wrongfully Convicted Man
By Mark Wilson, Esq. | Last updated on
In 2000, David Ayers was convicted of the murder of Dorothy Brown, a 76-year-old woman living in Cleveland. There's just one problem: Ayers didn't do it. In...
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