Bonnie Sargent v. Columbia Forest Products, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• observing that the power to recall a mandate “is to be exercised sparingly ... and reserved for exceptional circumstances.” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
• noting that a recall may be warranted where changes in governing law cast serious doubt on a previous judgment
• stating that the power to recall a mandate “is analogous to the power conferred on district courts by Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)”
• stating that the power to recall a mandate “is analogous to the power conferred on district courts by Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)”
• explaining that the plaintiff was prejudiced by Vermont's failure to provide for certification because the defendant was able to remove the case to the federal courts, which were forced to make what turned out to be an erroneous guess as to state law
• explaining that the plaintiff was prejudiced by Vermont's failure to provide for certification because the defendant was able to remove the case to the federal courts, which were forced to make what turned out to be an erroneous guess as to state law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).