In Re Larry Dean Kirkland and Billie Kirkland, Debtors. Security Pacific National Bank v. Larry Dean Kirkland and Billie Kirkland

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• holding federal courts follow the state’s intermediate appellate courts absent convincing evidence the state supreme court would decide differently
• explaining that “a federal court must predict how the highest state court would 13 decide the issue [of first impression] using intermediate appellate court decisions, decisions 14 from other jurisdictions, statutes, treatises, and restatements as guidance”
• stating that without specific state supreme court guidance, a federal court “must predict how the highest state court would decide the issue using intermediate appellate court decisions, decisions from other jurisdictions, statutes, treatises, and restatements as guidance”
• stating that without specific state supreme court guidance, a federal court “must predict how the highest state court would decide the issue using intermediate appellate court decisions, decisions from other jurisdictions, statutes, treatises, and restatements as guidance”
• stating that without specific state supreme court guidance, a federal court “must predict how the highest state court would decide the issue using intermediate appellate court decisions, decisions from other jurisdictions, statutes, treatises, and restatements as guidance”
• stating that without specific state supreme court guidance, a federal court “must predict how the highest state court would decide the issue using intermediate appellate court decisions, decisions from other jurisdictions, statutes, treatises, and restatements as guidance”

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