Susan is researching an employment discrimination case that will be filed for a client. It will be filed in the district court for the Eastern District of Detroit, which is located in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Susan finds a case on "all fours" from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. It will serve as a authority in Susan's case.

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The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision is persuasive authority in the Sixth Circuit because it is from a different circuit. Courts are not obligated to follow decisions from other circuits, but they may consider them as persuasive precedent.

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