CALIFORNIA

v.

FARMER

Citator

Cited By (16 total)

• Veranda Beach Club Ltd. P'ship v. W. Sur. Co., 936 F.2d 1364 (1st Cir. 1991)
  …ard in Wang Laboratories, 501 N.E. 2d 1163. A federal court of appeals is “bound ... by the actual expression of the state’s highest court” on points of state law. Jackson v. Liquid Carbonic Corp., 863 F. 2d 111, 115-16 (1st Cir.1988), cert. denied, 490 U.S. 1107, 109 S.Ct. 3158, 104 L.Ed.2d 1021 (1989); see also Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Bosch’s Estate, 387 U.S. 456, 465, 87 S.Ct. 1776, 1783, 18 L.Ed.2d 886 (1967) (a “State’s highest court is the best authority on its own law”). Hence, we cannot…
• Wall v. Tr. Co. OF Ga., 946 F.2d 805 (11th Cir. 1991)
  …l Service Bd. of Governors v. Aikens, 460 U.S. 711, 103 S.Ct. 1478, 75 L.Ed.2d 403 (1983); Woody v. St. Clair County Commission, 885 F. 2d 1557, 1560 (11th Cir.1989); Powers v. Ala. Dept. of Educ., 854 F. 2d 1285, 1290 (11th Cir.1988), cert. denied, 490 U.S. 1107, 109 S.Ct. 3158, 104 L.Ed.2d 1021 (1989). Whether the pri-ma facie case was established by direct or circumstantial evidence determines what must be shown by the defendant to rebut plaintiffs initial evidentiary showing. See Wilson, 779 F. 2d at 634…
• Peightal v. Metro. Dade Cnty., 940 F.2d 1394 (11th Cir. 1991)
  …ons (or portions of opinions) of the Supreme Court that do not carry a majority of Justices, although such opinions are obviously of persuasive quality. See Powers v. Alabama Dep’t of Educ., 854 F. 2d 1285, 1292 n. 11 (11th Cir.1988), cert. denied, 490 U.S. 1107, 109 S.Ct. 3158, 104 L.Ed.2d 1021 (1989); Coral Const. Co. v. King County, 729 F.Supp. 734, 738 (W.D.Wash.1989). In the spring of 1983, the Richmond, Virginia, City Council adopted a Minority Business Utilization Plan (the Richmond Plan). The Rich…