TORRES v. PRECISION INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 18-5850.

938 F.3d 752 (2019)

Ricardo TORRES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PRECISION INDUSTRIES, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: September 6, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Steve Wilson , THE STEVE WILSON FIRM, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellant. James L. Holt, Jr. , JACKSON, SHIELDS, YESIER & HOLT, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Steve Wilson , THE STEVE WILSON FIRM, Memphis, Tennessee, Bryce Ashby , DONATI LAW, PLLC, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellant. James L. Holt, Jr. , Paula J. Jackson , JACKSON, SHIELDS, YESIER & HOLT, Memphis, Tennessee, for Appellee. Christopher Ho , Marisa Díaz , LEGAL AID AT WORK, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae.

Before: GRIFFIN, KETHLEDGE, and THAPAR, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Federal courts are not in the business of answering hypothetical questions. Let alone hypothetical questions of constitutional law. In this case, the district court held that Tennessee law was preempted. But in doing so, the court skipped past the question whether state law had been violated in the first...

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