Fireman's Fund Insurance Company Allstate Ins. Co., Richard Banks v. Lynn Boyd Stites

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• under summary judgment standard of review availability of collateral estoppel is an issue of law reviewed de novo
• “[A] failure to prove a fact beyond a reasonable doubt does not mean that it cannot be proven by a preponderance of the evidence.”
• “the 27 checks and billing records the Insurers submitted were not offered to prove ‘the content of a writing’ as required by the” best evidence rule
• “the ‘best evidence’ rule embodied in 18 Rule 1002 [was] inapposite, because the checks and billing records the [plaintiffs] submitted were 19 not offered to prove ‘the content of a writing’ as required by the rule”

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