Legal Opinion
Rutherford v. Columbia Gas
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 30, 2009No. 08-3148PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
Like cases should end in like judgments. Once this court decides questions of law presented in a dispute, a nearly identical dispute ought to yield a similar outcome. Emily Rutherford challenges the Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation’s ability to maintain its pipeline easement by clearing certain trees from her land, but her appeal comes to us soon after we affirmed the same magistrate’s rejection of another landowner’s similar claims concerning a similar easement relating to the same gas pipelines. The facts and legal arguments of the two appeals are nearly…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Jan M. Sexton Salmi v. Secretary of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1985
- Wankier v. Crown Equipment Corp.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2003
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- Magdalene M. Smoot and Ryan M. Smoot v. Mazda Motors of America, Inc. And Tokio Marine and Fire Insurance Company, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2006
- Blaine Construction Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Insurance Company of North America, Defendant-Appellee/cross-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1999
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