Stacey Thomas Lee v. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company, a Delaware Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• considering “whether the nature of the district court opinion should have put the appellee on notice of the need to file a cross-appeal” (citation omitted)
• noting that we generally require a notice of cross-appeal where, as here, a party “seeks to increase its monetary recovery or decrease its monetary liability . . . [or] if an issue affects a legal right 3 AFFIRMED. that may have an impact on damage recovery.”
• “A prevailing party need not cross-petition to defend a judgment on any ground properly raised below, so long as that party seeks to preserve, and not to change, the judgment.”
• party that seeks “‘to change’” the judgment must file a cross-appeal
• finding federal funds preempts state tort claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).