Court Opinion

ID: 9497240
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 16:46:35.242469+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:58:04.800490
License: Public Domain

VAN GRAAFEILAND,
Senior Judge, dissenting.
One year ago I filed a four-page opinion affirming Judge Larimer’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant First Unum. I believed then that Judge Larimer was right and I continue to believe so. Moreover, until someone, whose opinion I respect, honestly informs me that as a general proposition, he or she would not hesitate to undergo a session of autoer-otic asphyxiation through strangulation, I will not change my mind. Partial strangulation is an injury. A suicidal motive is not required.
The “revocation” of my original opinion, Critchlow v. First UNUM Ins. Co. of America, 340 F.3d 130 (2d Cir.2003) is hereby revoked. Accordingly, I refile that opinion as it was originally filed.