DeWitt v. Southwestern Bell Telephone

Docket Number14-3192
Decision Date18 January 2017

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    ...(6th Cir. 2007)). (216) Jennings v. Mid-Am. Energy Co., 282 F. Supp. 2d 954, 963 (S.D. Iowa 2003). But see Dewitt v. Sw. Bell Tel. Co., 845 F.3d 1299, 1311 (10th Cir. 2017) (finding the doctrine does not eviscerate (217) Crowe v. ADT Sec. Servs., 649 F.3d 1189, 1196 (10th Cir. 2011) (citati......
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