Jennie A. Mayer v. Gary Partners and Company, Limited, and K-Mart Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[w]hen federal judges act as triers of fact in diversity cases, all questions concerning the standard of review are governed by federal law”
• overruling a line of cases that applied state law to determine which issues must be presented to juries
• \the federal standard [is] whether reasonable minds could deem the evidence adequate under the governing substantive rule\
• “In some states juries are entitled to decide all questions of fact and law, yet this does not compel a federal court to disregard provisions for summary judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).