Mobile & Ohio Railroad v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that evidence from another lawsuit filed by the plaintiff was relevant where that evidence could show “a possible cause of [the plaintiff’s] injury unrelated to the acts of the defendant”
• holding that evidence from a previous lawsuit filed by the plaintiff was relevant and not unduly prejudicial where that evidence established \a possible cause of [the plaintiff's] injury unrelated to the acts of the defendant\
• holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion “because the evidence [of the lawsuits] was relevant to -8- Case Nos. 18-1392/1395, Cohen v. Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss, P.C. show a possible cause of [plaintiff]’s injury unrelated to the acts of the defendant”
• denying pro se appeal from judgment of a defense verdict after evidence of a prior lawsuit was permitted to demonstrate a possible alternate cause of plaintiffs claimed injuries without a limiting instruction from the district court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).