Acme Distributing Co. v. Collins

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when the “claims that Plaintiffs raise on appeal lack merit, Plaintiffs are entitled to neither actual nor punitive damages”
• explaining that a federal court sitting in diversity applies the substantive law of the forum state
• upholding decision to decline to draw adverse inference where loss was accidental and plaintiff was not prejudiced
• upholding decision to decline to draw adverse inference where loss was accidental and plaintiff was not prejudiced
• addressing a question of first impression under state law by \mak[ing] a reasonable determination of the result the highest state court would reach if it were deciding the case\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• upholding summary judgment on trespass claim under Arizona law where plaintiff did not request nominal damages and failed to show it suffered any damage from broadcast of 52 seconds of tape secured by trespass, as opposed to damages flowing from other segments of broadcast

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