Lisa Learmonth v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the damages cap does not infringe Mississippi’s “inviolate” jury right
• stating that “we defer to intermediate state appellate courts decisions, unless convinced by other persuasive data that the higher court of the state would decide otherwise”
• noting that federal court sitting in diversity applies substantive law of forum state
• rejecting challenge to Mississippi damage cap predicated on Mississippi Constitution's jury guarantee after the Mississippi Supreme Court declined to resolve the question via certification
• upholding damages caps against challenge based on state constitutional right to jury trial after Mississippi Supreme Court refused to accept certified question on that issue
• upholding dam- ages caps against challenge based on state constitutional right to jury trial after Mississippi Supreme Court refused to accept certified question on that issue

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