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Ellis v. Weasler Engineering

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Overruled in part
Court
Fifth Circuit
Citation
258 F.3d 326
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
29 of 29
Citing cases (total)
29
Treatment dates
2001
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Ellis v. Weasler Engineering was amended on rehearing to remove its discussion of whether Louisiana courts' factual findings bind a federal diversity court. The Fifth Circuit left its judgment and remaining reasoning in place, including its application of the federal standard for reviewing a jury verdict.
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The panel's partial withdrawal is listed below. All 29 flagged citations have been read; none of those later opinions added adverse treatment.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

29 later cases cite Ellis v. Weasler Engineering; 29 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • On panel rehearing, the Fifth Circuit withdrew the part of Ellis discussing the force of Louisiana courts' factual findings in federal diversity litigation.

    Ellis v. Weasler Engineering Inc. · Fifth Circuit · filed

    The panel opinion issued on July 11, 2001, 258 F.3d 326 (5th Cir. 2001), is AMENDED by the present panel majority to delete Part II.B. of that opinion, and related mention of the distinction between decisions on law and facts in Louisiana cases.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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