Legal Opinion
Simmons v. King
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 12, 1973No. 72-2608PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:
The easiest thing in this case is how it happened. It was, or so it was thought, a simple rear-end collision at night between two heavily loaded tractor-trailer rigs on Interstate 55 near Hammond, Louisiana. But almost immediately, as a sort of land-based Donnybrook,1 it got more and more com*859plex. The upshot is that we must determine how well the Mississippi forum court did with a Louisiana diversity ease involving along the way overriding -Federal Seventh Amendment problems and the force of Interstate Commerce regulations. Since we find two things which affect the…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- American Trucking Assns., Inc. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Grigsby v. Coastal Marine Service of Texas, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- United States v. N. E. Rosenblum Truck Lines, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Gilbertville Trucking Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
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3Cited by74 opinions
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- Dana I. Kestenbaum v. Falstaff Brewing CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
- Jones v. MilesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
- Bob Springborn, Cross-Appellant v. American Commercial Barge Lines, Inc., Inland Tugs Company, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1985
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