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· 12/7/2001

Melissa Lancaster Tim Lancaster v. American and Foreign Insurance Company Royal Insurance Company of America Royal Surplus Line Insurance Co.

Citations

  • 272 F.3d 1059
  • 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 26277
  • 2001 WL 1556951

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that “[a]n ordinary garnishment proceeding is not a direct action, but rather is ancillary to the underlying tort action.”
  • “We are not bound by decisions of intermediate appellate courts, although they do provide persuasive authority, and we follow them when they are the best evidence of state law.”

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Judges: Wollman, Hansen, Riley

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