Christopher Chafin and Cheat Lake Urgent Care, PLLC v. Brian R. Boal and Boal & Associates, P.C.

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• explaining that, “[w]hen no controlling state decision exists, the federal court must attempt to predict what the state’s highest court would do”
• stating that in attempting to predict what the state’s highest court would do, a federal court may seek guidance from “the general weight and trend of authority in the relevant area of law” (quotation omitted)
• explaining that, “[w]here no controlling state decision exists, the federal court must attempt to predict what the state’s highest court would do,” and that, “[i]n doing so, it may seek guidance from decisions rendered by lower courts in the relevant state”
• explaining that, “[wjhere no controlling state decision exists, the federal court must attempt' to predict what the state’s highest court would do,” and that, “[i]n doing so, it may seek guidance from decisions rendered by lower courts in the relevant state”
• explaining that, “[w]here no controlling state decision exists, the federal court must attempt to predict what the state’s highest court would do,” and that, “[i]n doing so, it may seek guidance from decisions rendered by lower courts in the relevant state”
• explaining that, “[w]here no controlling state decision exists, the federal court must attempt to predict what the state’s highest court would do,” and that, “[i]n doing so, it may seek guidance from decisions rendered by lower courts in the relevant state”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).