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Sixth Circuit wrestles with ripeness standard in reviewing arbitration panel decision

Squire Sanders
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USA
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October 15 2010

Last week, a divided Sixth Circuit panel in Dealer Computer Services, Inc. v. Dub Herring Ford, et al. (6th Cir., Case No. 09-1848, Oct. 14, 2010) (PDF) (“DCS II”), held that the three-prong ripeness inquiry previously set forth by the Sixth Circuit in a closely related earlier ruling in the same case, Dealer Computer Services, Inc. v. Dub Herring Ford, 547 F.3d 558 (6th Cir. 2008) (PDF) (“DCS I”), is the correct standard to be applied in the Circuit, notwithstanding the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year in Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds Int’l Corp., 130 S.Ct. 1758 (2010) (PDF), articulated a two-part ripeness inquiry in concluding that a suit challenging the construction of a class arbitration clause was ripe

Unlike district judge in Sixth Circuit, Florida judge allows health care law challenge to proceed

Squire Sanders
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USA
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October 15 2010

We previously reported on Tuesday that the Sixth Circuit may be the first Circuit to weigh in on the constitutionality of the new health care law after Judge George Steeh of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan upheld the mandate requiring individuals to purchase health insurance under the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148

Sixth Circuit may be first to rule on new health care law

Squire Sanders
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USA
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October 12 2010

It looks like the Sixth Circuit may become the first federal Circuit Court to review a constitutional challenge to the new health care law

The Sixth Circuit decides not to decide do-not-call issue that is better addressed by the FCC

Squire Sanders
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USA
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January 1 2011

Does the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and its accompanying regulations permit a person to recover damages against a satellite television provider for phone calls violating the national do-not-call list that were made by independent contractors of the provider and not the provider itself?

Sixth Circuit case addressing constitutional challenge to new health care statute still may be first to reach Supreme Court

Squire Sanders
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USA
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December 13 2010

As we reported on Monday, a Virginia federal judge made national headlines when he declared that the mandate requiring individuals to purchase health insurance under the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148, is unconstitutional

Sixth Circuit expedites oral argument in case challenging health care statute

Squire Sanders
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USA
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February 9 2011

For the last several months, we have been following the case making its way through the Sixth Circuit involving a constitutional challenge to the mandate requiring individuals to purchase health insurance under the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148

Sixth Circuit requests (and receives) additional arguments on the challenge to the new health care statute to be heard one week from today

Squire Sanders
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USA
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May 25 2011

One week from today, the Sixth Circuit will hear oral arguments in the high-profile appeal involving a constitutional challenge to the mandate requiring individuals to purchase health insurance under the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148

Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled on Wednesday to consider nomination of Judge Bernice Bouie Donald to replace retiring judge gilman

Squire Sanders
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USA
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March 14 2011

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing to consider the nomination of Judge Bernice Bouie Donald to replace retiring Judge Ronald Lee Gilman on the Sixth Circuit

More briefing in the Thomas More Law Center case challenging the new health care statute

Squire Sanders
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USA
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January 18 2011

As we have been reporting on this blog, the Sixth Circuit is preparing to address the constitutionality of the mandate requiring individuals to purchase health insurance under the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148

On Arbor Day 2011, remembering how one lonely tree helped define the scope of judicial power in the Sixth Circuit

Squire Sanders
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USA
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April 28 2011

Tomorrow, April 29, is Arbor Day, a holiday on which we are encouraged to plant and care for trees

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