Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 3/14/2016

Antilles School, Inc. v. Lembach

Citations

64 V.I. 400
2016 V.I. Supreme LEXIS 7

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Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

explaining that the Seventh Amendment was extended to the Virgin Islands by the 1968 amendments to the ROA
explaining that the Seventh Amendment was extended to the Virgin Islands by the 1968 amendments to the ROA
rejecting the doctrine of remittitur, and recognizing that the Virgin Islands is likely bound by precedent from the Supreme Court of the United States holding additur unconstitutional under the Seventh Amendment
reasoning “premises liability is a theory of negligence, where the basis of the duty of care is the possession or control of the premises where an injury occurred” (internal alterations omitted)
“For the reasons that follow, we affirm, albeit on different grounds than those articulated by the Superior Court.”
“[C]ourts typically view . . . earlier constructions of borrowed rules as [being] persuasive, not mandatory.”

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Judges: Cabret, Hodge, Swan

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