A Reversal in Search of a Rationale
In NetChoice v. Yost, the Sixth Circuit sustained an Ohio law restricting children’s access to social media. Two judges sided with Ohio, one dissented, and all three approached the issue differently, leaving a precedent that decides much less than it seems at first glance.
Ode to Mike Hendershot
Last week, the United States Senate confirmed Michael J. Hendershot to be a United States District Judge for the Northern
The Wolf of Wall Street, FINRA, and the Jury Trial That Might Have Been
In Smith v. SEC, the Sixth Circuit tells a sanctioned broker that he may have been entitled to a jury trial, but the court doesn’t grant him one because he never raised the issue in the proper forum.
Scotts, Spruce, and the Trade-Dress Whipsaw
Miracle-Gro’s colors are everywhere in the lawn-care aisle — which was the problem with claiming Spruce swiped them
Lloyd’s of London, Burned Monets, and the Jurisdictional Problem Nobody Raised
The Sixth Circuit never reached the $100 million coverage fight. Instead, it homed in on a threshold, deceptively simple question: who is a “citizen” of an insurance market that began as a 17th-century coffee house?
