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Nature of Suit Code: 790
Nature of Suit: Other Labor Litigation
Cause of Action: 

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File Name: 16a0635n.06

No. 16-3403

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT

THEODORE LUCIO, et al.

Plaintiffs-Appellants,

v.

LEVY ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES 

COMPANY, et al.

Defendants-Appellees.

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ON APPEAL FROM THE 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT 

COURT FOR THE

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF 

OHIO

BEFORE: NORRIS, GIBBONS, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM. In this diversity employee-injury case, plaintiff Theodore Lucio appeals 

the grant of summary judgment for defendant Levy Environmental Services Company and its 

affiliated entities. Lucio fell from a slag-mill tower owned by Levy and suffered serious and 

permanent injuries. He received Ohio workers’ compensation benefits, but also brought suit 

against Levy under Ohio Rev. Code § 2745.01, which allows an employee to recover outside the 

workers’ compensation system for an employer’s intentional tort. The district court excluded the 

opinion of Lucio’s expert in part, and granted summary judgment for lack of evidence of intent 

to injure on the part of Levy. After carefully reviewing the record, the applicable law, and the 

parties’ briefs, we conclude that the district court’s opinion correctly sets out the facts and 

governing law. Because this court’s issuance of a full opinion would serve no jurisprudential 

purpose and would be duplicative, we affirm on the basis of the well-reasoned opinion of the 

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district court. Lucio v. Levy Environmental Services Co., No. 3:14CV1849, 2016 WL 1110244

(N.D. Ohio Mar. 22, 2016).

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