Legal Opinion
Steve Black v. Dixie Consumer Prods.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 29, 2016No. 15-5889PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSutton, J., joined by Boggs, J.,
CLAY, J. (pp. 586-93), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Steve Black, a truck driver for Western Express, drove a load of raw paper materials to a factory operated by Dixie Consumer Products in Bowling Green, Kentucky. During the unloading process, a careless Dixie employee ran over Black’s foot with a forklift. Black received workers’ compensation from Western due to the injury. He then filed a tort claim against Dixie and its parent company, Georgia-Pacific. The district court denied Dixie and Georgia-Pacific’s motion for summary judgment. Because…
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