Court Opinion

ID: 9454815
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:59:54.950653+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:19.308876
License: Public Domain

RIVES, Circuit Judge
(concurring specially):
I remain of the opinion expressed at great length in my dissent to Boeing *1320Company v. Shipman, 5 Cir. 1969, 411 F.2d 365, that the standards of sufficiency of the evidence to support a jury verdict enunciated in Lavender v. Kurn, 1946, 327 U.S. 645, 66 S.Ct. 740, 90 L.Ed. 916, are constitutional standards required by the Seventh Amendment, and hence applicable in diversity cases. If those standards were applied in this case, then I think rehearing should be granted and the judgment affirmed. I concur in the denial of rehearing solely because I consider myself bound by this Court’s decision in Boeing Company v. Shipman, supra.