Bullock v. Wayne

How courts have described this case

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• holding this provision to be a substantive rule applicable to a diversity suit in federal court, and barring evidence of a conviction on failure-to-yield as basis for issue preclusion on question of driver’s violation of statute
• Section 42-4-1713 “prohibits any mention of convictions for violating the vehicle and traffic statutes in Article 4.”
• a “court may not consider all proffered evidence when ruling on a summary judgment motion; only admissible evidence may enter the analysis.”
• a “court may not consider all proffered evidence when ruling on a summary judgment motion; only admissible evidence may enter the analysis.”
• a federal court exercising diversity jurisdiction applies the law of the forum state
• a federal court exercising diversity jurisdiction applies the law of the forum state

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).