U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Styla Carter v. Hickory Healthcare Inc.
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- Type
- Opinion
- Author
- Jeffrey S. Sutton
- Filed
- Sept. 27, 2018
- Case
- Styla Carter v. Hickory Healthcare Inc.
- Case status
- Decided
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SUTTON, Circuit Judge. After Hickory Healthcare fired Styla Carter from her job as a nursing assistant, she sued the company for discrimination. The district court ruled that she had filed her lawsuit too late and could not proceed. It then sanctioned her lawyer, Edward Gilbert, because he had advanced a claim that was clearly time barred. Because the district court did not abuse its di…
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