Hamm v. American Home Products Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• acknowledging that “the line between substance and procedure is neither static nor easily drawn”
• noting 4 “[t]he most persuasive argument in favor of separating the issue of a defendants’ wealth 5 from the rest of the trial is that the defendants will be somehow prejudiced if information 6 of their finances is intermingled with the evidence on the issue of liability”
• “[T]he first step of the analysis is to determine whether there is a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure that governs the matter at issue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).