YELLOWFISH ET AL.

v.

CITY OF STILLWATER, OKLAHOMA, ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (38 total)

• Theda Keith v. Russell T. Bundy & Assocs., Inc., 495 So. 2d 1223 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986)
  …prevents the court’s alteration of the jury’s apportioning of negligence is that the question of apportioning is one that is peculiarly within the province of the jury. Akermanis v. Sea-Land Service, Inc., 688 F. 2d 898 (2d Cir.1982), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 927, 103 S.Ct. 2087, 77 L.Ed.2d 298 (1983). See also Ashcroft v. Calder Race Course, Inc., 492 So. 2d 1309 (Fla.1986). In the instant case, it was clearly error for the trial judge to reduce the verdict by one-third based on his determination that th…
• Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp. v. Rabbi Mordecai Elefant, 790 F.2d 661 (7th Cir. 1986)
  …of the federal-question jurisdiction granted by 28 U.S.C. § 1331. Similarly, the suit arises under federal law if the FDIC acquires the loan for value and sues as the creditor. FDIC v. Braemoor Associates, 686 F. 2d 550 (7th Cir.1982), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 927, 103 S.Ct. 2086, 77 L.Ed.2d 297 (1983). But suits in which the FDIC acts as receiver, collecting money owed to the bank according to state law, do not arise under federal law. This statute appears to have nothing to do with diversity jurisdiction…
• United States v. Weldon Rushing Payne, 750 F.2d 844 (11th Cir. 1985)
  …s are meritless. First, “it is well settled that acts which are themselves legal lose their legal character when they become constituent elements of an unlawful scheme.” United States v. Hajecate, 683 F. 2d 894, 896-97 (5th Cir.1982), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 927, 103 S.Ct. 2086, 77 L.Ed.2d 298 (1983) (quoting Continental Ore Co. v. Union Carbide Corp., 370 U.S. 690, 709, 82 S.Ct. 1404, 1415, 8 L.Ed.2d 777 (1962)). In addition, the government need not prove that a defendant had knowledge of all details or ph…

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