Bankers Trust Company, Cross-Appellee v. Lee Keeling & Associates, Inc., and Lee A. Keeling

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he jury’s finding that [the defendant] was negligent . . . could only have been based on speculation and conjecture, an impermissible ground upon which to base its verdict.”
• in diversity cases, “federal law provides the procedural measure of the sufficiency of the evidence, [and] state law on negligence provides the substantive measure.” (brackets and internal quotation marks omitted)
• in diversity cases, “federal law provides the procedural measure of the sufficiency of the evidence, [and] state law on negligence provides the substantive measure.” (brackets and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “A district court has discretionary power to stay proceedings 21 in its own court.”
• “The presumption of access is based on the need for 21 federal courts, although independent . . . to have a measure of accountability and for the 22 public to have confidence in the administration of justice.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).