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· 12/16/1996

Erie Insurance Group v. Sear Corporation, Larry Bass, and Birch Dalton

Citations

  • 102 F.3d 889
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 32936
  • 1996 WL 720766

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that the court must give the “unambiguous” term “advertising” its plain, ordinary because it was not defined in the insurance policy
  • stating that “actions taken in the course of advertising must involve actual, affirmative self-promotion of the actor’s goods or services.”
  • rejecting the argument that an insurance policy term was ambiguous “on the basis of conflicting case law” interpreting the term
  • rejecting the argument that an insurance policy term was ambiguous “on the basis of conflicting case law” interpreting the term
  • rejecting the argument that an insurance policy term was ambiguous “on the basis of conflicting case law” interpreting the term
  • rejecting the argument that an insurance policy term was ambiguous “on the basis of conflicting case law” interpreting the term

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Judges: Posner, Wood, Eschbach

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