John J. Terrell, Plaintiff-Appelle v. Household Goods Carriers' Bureau

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the law of the case rule applies only to issues that were decided, and does not include determination of questions which might have been decided
• discussing how the law of the case demands the lower court follow what has been decided at an earlier stage of the case either explicitly or by necessary implication
• plaintiff may proceed under lost profits theory even if business had never been profitable so long as each element of projection is supported by proven facts
• the plaintiff “must show only, as a matter of fact and with a fair degree of certainty, that defendant’s ille gal conduct materially contributed to the injury.”
• plaintiff may proceed under lost profits theory even if business had never been profitable so long as each element of projection is supported by proven facts
• plaintiff’s “[ejxpert on damages need not be armed on the right hand with a slide rule, on the left hand with a computer. He is allowed some economic imagination so long as it does not become fantasy”

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