Wankier v. Crown Equipment Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that under Utah law, a plaintiff must prove a safer, feasible alternative design
• “Where no controlling state decision exists, the federal court must attempt to predict what the state's highest court would do.”
• “[W]hen a panel of this Court has rendered a decision interpreting state law, that interpretation is binding on district courts in this circuit, and on subsequent panels of this Court, unless an intervening decision of the state’s highest court has resolved the issue.”
• “[W]hen a panel of this Court has rendered a decision interpreting state law, that interpretation is binding on district courts in this circuit, and on subsequent panels of this Court, unless an intervening decision of the state’s highest court has resolved the issue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).