Legal Opinion
McKay v. Ashland Oil, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Kentucky
Decided April 8, 1988No. Civ. A. No. 84-149PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BERTELSMAN, District Judge.
This court is called upon to decide whether mandatory summary jury trials are a valid pretrial settlement procedure.1 2A summary jury trial was set in this case *44over the objection of the plaintiffs. A motion for reconsideration of that setting was filed by plaintiffs promptly after the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Strandell v. Jackson County, 838 F.2d 884 (7th Cir. 1988).
In Strandell, the Seventh Circuit held that a district court could not require the parties to participate in a mandatory summary jury trial. The…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Colgrove v. BattinSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Eash v. Riggins Trucking Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1985
- Frazier v. HeebeSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Davison v. Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Inc.District Court, D. Maryland · 1978
- Wesley Rhea v. Massey-Ferguson, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1985
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3Cited by6 opinions
- In Re Nlo, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1993
- Home Owners Funding Corp. of America v. Century Bk.District Court, D. Massachusetts · 1988
- Mitchell T. Russell and Barbara A. Russell v. Ppg Industries, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1992
- Federal Reserve Bank v. Carey-Canada, Inc.District Court, D. Minnesota · 1988
- Matter of Sargeant Farms, Inc.United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Florida · 1998
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