SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION CO.

v.

BAILEY ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (50 total)

• Caldarera v. E. Airlines, Inc., 705 F.2d 778 (5th Cir. 1983)
  …h’g, 540 F. 2d 837 (5th Cir.1976) (state law on admissibility of evidence of remarriage in wrongful death action will be followed in diversity case); Bailey v. Southern Pacific Transp. Co., 613 F. 2d 1385, 1388 (5th Cir.) (per curiam), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 836, 101 S.Ct. 109, 66 L.Ed.2d 42 (1980) (following Texas law that evidence of remarriage not admissible for purposes of mitigating damages in wrongful death action). Contra Papizzo v. O. Robertson Transp., Ltd., 401 F.Supp. 540 (E.D.Mich.1975) (admissi…
• Colon Shows v. Jamison Bedding, Inc., 671 F.2d 927 (5th Cir. 1982)
  …cessive only when it “clearly exceeds that amount that any reasonable man could feel the claimant is entitled to”. Id. at 880 (emphasis in original). See also Bailey v. Southern Pacific Transport Co., 5 Cir. 1980, 613 F. 2d 1385, cert. denied, 1980, 449 U.S. 836, 101 S.Ct. 109, 66 L.Ed.2d 42. The defendants here have not satisfied this strict standard. The dispute over the measure of damages concerns the plaintiff’s pain and suffering and, specifically, the psychological effect on him of the accident. The…
• Lucas v. United States, 807 F.2d 414 (5th Cir. 1986)
  …st court in a state, we should defer to the holdings of lesser courts unless we are convinced by other evidence that the state law is otherwise. See, e.g., Bailey v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co., 613 F. 2d 1385, 1388 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 449 U.S. 836, 101 S.Ct. 109, 66 L.Ed.2d 42 (1980); see also West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 311 U.S. 223, 237, 61 S.Ct. 179, 183, 85 L.Ed. 139 (1940). We recognize that the present certification inquiry — whether there are decisions of the Texas Supr…