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  • June 10, 2019
    decided Decision issued in Adam Kanuszewski v. Mich. Dep't of Health & Human Servs.

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Opinion By Eric L. Clay June 10, 2019

RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit I.O.P. 32.1(b) File Name: 19a0122p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ADAM KANUSZEWSKI, et al., ┐ Plaintiffs-Appellants, │ │…

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Lead opinion Author not recorded June 10, 2019

CLAY, Circuit Judge. Plaintiffs Adam and Ashley Kanuszewski, Shannon Laporte, and Lynnette Wiegand, individually and as parent-guardians to their minor children, appeal the district court's grant of a motion to dismiss Plaintiffs' claims filed by Defendants Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and its employees1 being sued in their official and individual capacities; and Michigan Neonatal Bio…

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Concurrence Author not recorded June 10, 2019

ROGERS, Circuit Judge, concurring. CONCURRENCE I concur in full. However, with respect to the plaintiffs' standing for their damages claims, I would frame the analysis a little differently. In any event, none of the damage suits may proceed anyway because of sovereign or qualified immunity, as the majority opinion explains. Most Article III standing analysis deals with whet…

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