Legal Opinion
Savoie v. Martin
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 6, 2012No. 10-6529PublishedCited by 159 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge.
This case arises out of a custody dispute. Christopher John Savoie, M.D., brought this suit on behalf of himself and his minor children against James G. Martin, III, in his individual and official capacity as both a mediator and a judge for the Twenty-First Judicial District in Tennessee; and Stites & Harbison, PLLC, the law firm that employed Martin when he worked as a court-appointed mediator in Savoie’s divorce proceedings with his now-ex-wife. Savoie also sued a court-ordered parental coordinator. The district court dismissed each of Savoie’s…
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