FOSTER

v.

CALIFORNIA

Citator

Cited By

• Grunenthal v. Long Island Rail Rd. Co., 393 U.S. 156 (U.S. 1968)
  …ourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and that court, one judge dissenting, ordered the District Court to grant the railroad a new trial unless the petitioner would agree to remit $105,000 of the award. 388 F. 2d 480 (1968). We granted certiorari, 391 U. S. 902 (1968).2 We reverse. Petitioner argues that the Court of Appeals exceeded its appellate powers in reviewing the denial of the railroad’s motion, either because such review is constitutionally precluded by the provision of the Seventh Amendment that…
• Gardner v. California, 393 U.S. 367 (U.S. 1969)
  …he Superior Court. His motion was denied and he sought review of that denial by certiorari to the District Court of Appeal. It was denied, as was a timely petition for a hearing in the Supreme Court. We granted the petition for a writ of certiorari, 391 U. S. 902, to consider whether the rulings below squared with our decisions in Griffin v. Illinois, 351 U. S. 12, and Long v. District Court, 385 U. S. 192. We reverse the judgment below. If this involved an appeal from the Superior Court’s denial of habeas…
• Sylvestri v. The Warner & Swasey Co., Inc., 398 F.2d 598 (2d Cir. 1968)
  …y of a union machine operator. We do not consider the verdict as grossly excessive. Compare LaFrance v. New York, N. H. & H. R. R. Co., 292 F. 2d 649 (2 Cir. 1961), with Grunethal v. Long Island R. R. Co., 388 F. 2d 480 (2 Cir. 1968), cert. granted, 391 U.S. 902, 88 S.Ct. 1651, 20 L.Ed.2d 416. Nor do we agree that the trial court erred in its admission of evidence or charge with respect to dam [*607] ages. Sylvestri suffered a fractured wrist in the accident which has resulted in a continuing disability of…