U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Daniel Welch v. Heart Truss & Engineering Corp.
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- Type
- Opinion
- Author
- Chad Andrew Readler
- Filed
- Oct. 6, 2025
- Case
- Daniel Welch v. Heart Truss & Engineering Corp.
- Case status
- Decided
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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 25a0451n.06 Case No. 24-1584 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT FILED Oct 06, 2025 ) DANIEL WELCH, KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) Plaintiff-Appellant, ) ) ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED v. ) STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR ) THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF HEART TRUSS & ENGINEERING CORP., ) MICHIGAN Defendant-Appellee. ) ) OPINION Before: COLE, STRANCH, and READLER, Circuit Judges. READLER, Circuit Judge. Heart Truss & Engineering Corp. fired Daniel Welch, believing that Welch was responsible for painting graffiti on trusses that were later delivered to the company’s customers. Welch, however, viewed Heart Truss’s justification for his termination as pretext for disability-based discrimination and workers’ compensation retaliation, prompting this lawsuit. The district court disagreed and granted summary judgment to Heart Truss. We affirm. I. For years, Welch worked as a delivery driver for Heart Truss. In that role, Welch transported stacks of trusses from Heart Truss’s manufacturing facility to construction sites, where the trusses were used to support the roofs of residential and commercial structures. Welch, upon arriving at a job site, was …
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