Legal Opinion
Bowling v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 11, 2007No. 06-5589UnpublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLAY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs, Tammy Renna Bowling and Tony Bowling, appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Defendant, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., on their premises liability claim. Specifically, Plaintiffs contend that the district court 1 erred in ruling on Defendant’s summary judgment motion before the time for discovery had passed, and that a genuine issue of materi al fact remained on their premises liability claim. For the reasons that follow, we AFFIRM.
BACKGROUND
This suit arose from a slip-and-fall at one of Defendant’s Knoxville, Tennessee stores. On January 6, 2002,…
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