Opinion ID: 7011599
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Heading: Sufficiency of the Evidence on the Detrimental Rebanee Claim

Text: Bayou Furs and Berry did not raise the issue of the sufficiency of the evidence on the detrimental reliance claim in their Rule 50 motion. Thus, the issue is being raised for the first time on appeal. Issues raised for the first time on appeal are reviewed only for plain error. Shipman v. Central Gulf Lines, Inc., 709 F.2d 383, 388 (5th Cir.1983). Under this standard, we will reverse only if the judgment complained .of results in a “manifest miscarriage of justice.” Coughlin v. Capitol Cement Co., 571 F.2d 290, 297 (5th Cir.1978). Thus, the question becomes not whether there was substantial evidence to support the jury verdict, but whether there was any evidence to support the jury verdict. Id. After reviewing the record, we conclude that there was evidence from which a reasonable jury could conclude that Bayou Furs and Berry made various misrepresentations inducing Industrias into the contractual relationship and inducing Industrias’s reliance on Bayou Furs for all of its nutria needs.