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· 4/27/1989

Lovejoy Electronics, Inc., Cross-Appellee v. Gerald N. O'berto, Cross-Appellant

Citations

  • 873 F.2d 1001
  • 1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 5890

How courts have described this case

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  • observing that if only evidence of fraud was a statement rendered inadmissible under the Dead Man's Statute, then opponent would be entitled to summary judgment
  • state’s dead man statute governs admissibility of certain evidence where state law supplies rule of decision
  • “The legislative history of Rule 601 reveals that the purpose of this exception was, precisely, to preserve state dead man’s laws in cases such as this where state law supplies the rule of decision.”

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Judges: Wood, Posner, Coffey

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