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RUPERT v. DAGGETT

No. 11-1134.

695 F.3d 417 (2012)

Sandra L. RUPERT, Special Administrator of the Estate of Ivan L. Rupert, Jr., deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Freda DAGGETT, doing business as KFDGT Pilot Car Services, Defendant — Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: September 19, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Scott R. Melton , Gruel, Mills, Nims & Pylman, LLP, Grand Rapids, Michigan for Appellant. Daniel S. Saylor , Garan Lucow Miller, P.C., Detroit, Michigan, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Scott R. Melton , William F. Mills , Gruel, Mills, Nims & Pylman, LLP, Grand Rapids, Michigan for Appellant. Roger A. Smith , Caryn A. Gordon , Garan Lucow Miller, P.C., Detroit, Michigan, for Appellee.

Before: WHITE, STRANCH, and FARRIS, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

JANE B. STRANCH, Circuit Judge.

Michael Otteren was driving behind his travel companion, Freda Daggett, when Daggett made an illegal U-turn. As Otteren repeated Daggett's U-turn, his vehicle cut off a motorcycle being driven by Ivan Rupert, resulting in his death. His widow, Sandra Rupert, sued Daggett under the theory that the accident was a reasonably foreseeable result of Daggett's own negligence because she knew Otteren was following her. The...

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