Myron Batts v. Tow-Motor Forklift Company and Caterpillar, Inc., Caterpillar, Inc.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1995-10-03

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FITZWATER, District Judge: We are asked to decide in this Erie 1 case whether a change in state decisional law — in this instance, Mississippi’s conversion from the “consumer expectations” to the “risk-utility” test in products liability actions— constituted an extraordinary circumstance that vested the district court wi…

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