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· 1/30/1981

Gulf States Utilities Company v. Ecodyne Corporation

Citations

  • 635 F.2d 517
  • 7 Fed. R. Serv. 876
  • 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 20535

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that excluding relevant evidence in a bench trial on the basis of unfair prejudice is a useless and illogical procedure
  • holding that evidence should not be excluded from bench trial on grounds of prejudice under Fed.R.Evid. 403
  • holding that concerns over undue prejudice under Federal Rule of Evidence 403 have “no logical application to bench trials.”
  • holding that excluding relevant evidence in a bench trial on the basis of unfair prejudice is a useless and illogical procedure
  • holding that excluding relevant evidence in a bench trial on the basis of unfair prejudice is a useless and illogical procedure
  • holding that concerns over undue prejudice under Federal Rule of Evidence 403 have “no logical application to bench trials.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Coleman, Clark, Reavley

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