Legal Opinion
Melissa Ann Bobo v. Tennessee Valley Authority
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 26, 2017No. 15-15271PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ED CARNES, Chief Judge:
In return for the loan of life, we each owe God a death. 1 Payment in full is a nonnegotiable term of the debt, but the timing and circumstances in which remittance is made varies. The question that lies at the bottom of this case is whether the Tennessee Valley Authority caused Barbara Bobo to die sooner and suffer more in the course of dying than she otherwise would have. The legal issues are more complicated, as legal issues often are, but that question is what the case is about, why it is here.
Barbara Bobo’s husband, James “Neal” Bobo, worked for the TVA for more…
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