Court Opinion

ID: 9469277
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:36:15.883055+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:41:18.486511
License: Public Domain

ON SUGGESTION FOR REHEARING EN BANC
PER CURIAM:
Treating the suggestion for rehearing en banc as a petition for panel rehearing, it is ordered that the petition for panel rehearing is DENIED. No member of the panel nor Judge in regular active service of this Court having requested that the Court be polled on rehearing en bane (Rule 35, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure; Local Fifth Circuit Rule 16), the suggestion for Rehearing En Banc is DENIED.
In view of the tone and content of Appellant’s Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc, we direct its attention to Rule 50(d), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the comment thereon by the Advisory Committee on 1963 Amendments to Rules, reading in pertinent part as follows:
Subdivision (d) deals with the situation where judgment has been entered on the jury verdict, the motion for judgment n. o. v. and any motion for a new trial having been denied by the trial court. The verdict-winner, as appellee, besides seeking to uphold the judgment, may urge upon the appellate court that in case the trial court is found to have erred in entering judgment on the verdict, there are grounds for granting him a new trial instead of directing the entry of judgment for his opponent. In appropriate cases the appellate court is not precluded from itself directing that a new trial be had.