Newfound Management Corporation v. Cedrick Lewis

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• holding Seventh Amendment applies to Virgin Islands the same as it does to the United States by virtue of the Revised Organic Act
• stating that \ Johnson remains the `authoritative' statement on the law of consolidation\
• approving prior bench trial, noting that “[tjhis situation thus contrasts with the usual Beacon Theatres scenario where substantial factual overlaps occur”
• clarifying decision in Blake as based on the fact that the personal injury suit “as filed first was a necessary predicate to the indemnity suit”
• examining property titles executed before 1917 to determine boundary lines on the east end of St. John
• trial court’s certification is not dispositive on the issue of proper appellate jurisdiction; noting also that propriety of a Rule 54(b) certification reviewed for abuse of discretion

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