Joanna Russ, an Individual v. Standard Insurance Company, an Oregon Corporation

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• holding that the district court could not employ another rule to circumvent this circuit's prohibition on granting untimely jury demands due to inadvertence
• holding that the district court could not employ another rule to circumvent this circuit’s prohibition on granting untimely jury demands due to inadvertence
• holding that the district court could not employ another rule to circumvent this circuit’s prohibition on granting untimely jury demands due to inadvertence
• explaining that the Ninth Circuit reads “Rule 39(b) to prohibit district courts 18 from excusing an inadvertent failure to request a jury trial”
• stating that the “specific prohibition on district 15 courts granting jury trials where the parties have failed to comply with [Federal] Rule [of 16 Civil Procedure] 38 must trump the more general discretionary powers of district courts to 17 permit plaintiffs to dismiss under Rule 41(a)(2)”
• “The district court could 20 not order a trial by jury under Rule 39(b) because [the plaintiff’s] attorney admitted that the reason 21 for the untimely jury demand was inadvertence”

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