Gates v. Pickett

How courts have described this case

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

• taking judicial notice of the fact that surgery can “involve pain and suffering”
• adopting “as federal 10 common law” the “generally accepted rule that, in the absence of a clear contract provision 11 to the contrary, an insured must be made whole before an insurer can enforce its right to 12 subrogation”
• construing ambiguities in favor of the insured
• discussing judicial notice of “[w]ell-known medical facts”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).