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unusual facts about Sixth Circuit



James L. Graham

While serving with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, he supplied a dissenting opinion on a decision upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandate to purchase health insurance.


see also

Bowles v. Russell

The Sixth Circuit decision is published at 432 F. 3d 668 and was written by Chief Judge Danny Julian Boggs.

Fleeing felon rule

Samuel Alito's memo written while working in the Solicitor General's office regarding Memphis Police v. Garner which was the Sixth Circuit appellate case leading to Tennessee v. Garner.

Gerald Ford judicial appointment controversies

Tennessee seat - Harry W. Wellford (judgeship later filled by Carter nominee Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.) (In 1982, Wellford was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a different seat on the Sixth Circuit; he was quickly confirmed by the United States Senate)

Nathaniel Jones

Nathaniel R. Jones (born 1926), Judge on the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Paul G. Gardephe

Albert J. Engel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1982 to 1983.

Pierce Lively

He received an LL.B. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1948, and was a law clerk to Shackelford Miller, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit from 1948 to 1949.