Higgins v. Closeout Distributors, Inc. (In Re Higgins)

How courts have described this case

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• lower courts should act cautiously before ruling that circuit court precedent no longer is good law
• “The general rule, of course, is that the district courts are bound by decisions of the Sixth Circuit even if decisions from other circuits seem more persuasive.”
• in the context of overruling Sixth Circuit precedent, “a District Court 2 See, e.g., Guinn v. Norfolk S. Ry. Co., 441 F.Supp.3d 1319, 1333-34 (N.D. Ga. 2020); Barritt v. Union Pac. R.R. Co., CIVIL ACTION NO. 17-1044, 2018 WL 4343418, at (W.D. La. Sept. 11, 2018

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