Meridian Mutual Insurance Company v. Roslyn E. Kellman, Skender Bajrami, Individually and Doing Business as Kopliku Painting Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that fumes from toxic chemicals used to seal a floor at a school, which injured a teacher in the room below sealed floor, were “confined within the general area of their intended use”
• noting that a federal court may “disregard the decisions of intermediate appellate state courts” if “it is convinced by other persuasive data that the highest court of the state would decide otherwise”
• “[T]he Court must make the best prediction, even in the absence of direct state precedent, of what the [state] Supreme Court would do if confronted with [the] question.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “If the state’s highest court has not addressed the issue, the federal court must attempt to ascertain how that court would rule if it were faced with the issue.”
• “In construing questions of state law, . . . [i]f the state’s highest court has not addressed the issue, the federal court must attempt to ascertain how that court would rule if it were faced with the issue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).