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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020), is a landmark [1] United States Supreme Court civil rights decision in which the Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination because of sexuality or gender identity. The plaintiff, Gerald Bostock, was fired from his county job after he ...
Novak v. City of Parma, No. 21-3290, is a 2022 decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granting qualified immunity to the city of Parma, Ohio, and its officials for prosecuting Anthony Novak over a Facebook page that parodied the Parma Police Department's page. The case drew widespread attention when The Onion, a ...
In Taylor v.City of Saginaw, et al., No. 17-2126 (6th Cir. 2019), [1] the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the practice of “chalking” in which parking enforcement officers apply chalk to mark the tires of parked vehicles in order to track the duration of time for which those vehicles have been parked, constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment to the ...
In an opinion filed Wednesday, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a jury award of $35,000, as well as $546,000 in attorney's fees awarded by the federal judge who oversaw the trial.
Among other things, the 6th Circuit said, UK could be found liable based on how it responded to evidence that Monroe interfered with a student disciplinary hearing by encouraging the rape case’s ...
Dirty World Entertainment Recordings LLC, 755 F.3d 398 (6th Cir. 2014), is a case in which the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals adopted the Roommates material development test for limiting immunity under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). A libel suit was pursued by Sarah Jones, formerly a high school teacher and ...
The 6th Circuit was randomly selected after legal challenges were filed in seven circuit courts. The FCC asked that the case be transferred to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of ...
The Sixth Circuit proceeding was the first in which a ruling was reached. Sixth Circuit opinion. The Sixth Circuit reviewed the complaint in March 2023. The court focused on the legality of the FCC's universal service program as authorized by law in the Telecommunications Act of 1996.