SMITH

v.

SMITH ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• In re Brooklyn Navy Yard Asbestos Litig. (Joint E. & S. Dist. Asbestos Litigation), 971 F.2d 831 (2d Cir. 1992)
  …Y.S.2d 1006 (Sup.Ct.1989)). A federal court faced with a question of unsettled state law must do its best to guess how the state court of last resort would decide the issue. See DeWeerth v. Baldinger, 836 F. 2d 103, 108 (2d Cir.1987), cert, denied, 486 U.S. 1056, 108 S.Ct. 2823, 100 L.Ed.2d 924 (1988); Cooper v. American Airlines, Inc., 149 F. 2d 355, 359 (2d Cir.1945). Where the high court has not spoken, the best indicators of how it would decide are often the decisions of lower state courts. See Commissi…
• Kaphy Long v. Trans World Airlines, Inc., 913 F.2d 1262 (7th Cir. 1990)
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• Holloway v. United States, 960 F.2d 1348 (8th Cir. 1992)
  …ns v. Spivey, 911 F. 2d 22, 33 (8th Cir.1990), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 111 S.Ct. 1309, 113 L.Ed.2d 243 (1991); Gray v. University of Ark., 883 F. 2d 1394, 1398 (8th Cir.1989); Larson v. United States, 835 F. 2d 169, 172 (8th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 486 U.S. 1056, 108 S.Ct. 2824, 100 L.Ed.2d 925 (1988); Gilbert v. City of Little Rock, Ark., 722 F. 2d 1390, 1399 (8th Cir.1983), cert. denied, 466 U.S. 972, 104 S.Ct. 2347, 80 L.Ed.2d 820 (1984); In re Federal Skywalk Cases, 680 F. 2d 1175, 1183 (8th Cir.), cert…