U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
John Shufeldt v. Baker Donelson
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- Type
- Opinion
- Author
- Eric L. Clay
- Filed
- Aug. 15, 2025
- Case
- John Shufeldt v. Baker Donelson
- Case status
- Decided
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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 25a0401n.06 No. 24-5822 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FILED FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Aug 15, 2025 KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk ) JOHN J. SHUFELDT, M.D., ) Plaintiff-Appellant, ) ON APPEAL FROM THE ) UNITED STATES DISTRICT v. ) COURT FOR THE MIDDLE ) DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE BAKER, DONELSON, BEARMAN, ) CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ, P.C., ) OPINION Defendant-Appellee. ) ) ) Before: SUTTON, Chief Judge; CLAY and THAPAR, Circuit Judges. CLAY, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff John J. Shufeldt, M.D., appeals the district court’s order granting summary judgment to Defendant Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C. (“Baker Donelson”) on his legal malpractice claim. Because we find the district court correctly applied Delaware’s business judgment rule to conclude that Shufeldt failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to the causation prong of his legal malpractice claim, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court. I. BACKGROUND A. Factual History The following facts are undisputed, unless noted otherwise. John Shufeldt, a medical doctor, is the founder of NextCare Holdings, Inc. He was also NextCare’s former Chairman of the Board, former Chief Ex…
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