David A. Kostelec v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company

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• holding that district court did not plainly err when record showed no evidence of judicial bias
• explaining that panel may recognize that earliest panel decisions “properly control, as they should have controlled” in subsequent cases that created conflicting lines of precedent
• holding no abuse of discretion in ruling on evidentiary matters concerning motion in limine, especially when none of the testimony allegedly damaging to party was ever admitted into evidence
• noting that while we are not at liberty to overrule an opinion filed by another panel, we are free to choose which line of cases to follow
• noting that one panel is powerless to overrule the opinion filed by another panel
• questioning Davis' s validity and noting in past ten years this court has overwhelmingly followed Baker standard

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