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Case No. 15-1517

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT

FILED Apr 27, 2016 CAROLYN SEBESTYEN, ) DEBORAH S. HUNT, Clerk ) Plaintiff-Appellant, ) ) ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED v. ) STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR ) THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LEIKIN, INGBER & WINTERS, P.C.; PAUL ) MICHIGAN M. INGBER, ) ) Defendants-Appellees. )

BEFORE: SUTTON and KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judges; BECKWITH, District Judge.*

PER CURIAM. The district court, bound by then-governing Sixth Circuit precedent,

held that the defendants’ unaccepted offer of judgment “rendered this case moot.” Sebestyen v.

Leikin, Ingber & Winters, P.C., No. 13-cv-15182, 2015 WL 1439881, at *6–7 (E.D. Mich. Mar.

27, 2015). After the plaintiff appealed, the Supreme Court came out the other way, holding that

“an unaccepted settlement offer or offer of judgment does not moot a plaintiff’s case.”

Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, 136 S. Ct. 663, 672 (2016). In light of Campbell-Ewald, we

vacate the district court’s order and remand for further proceedings.

* The Honorable Sandra S. Beckwith, Senior United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, sitting by designation.