Legal Opinion

Coons v. Industrial Knife Co., Inc.

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided September 10, 2010No. 09-1489, 09-1791PublishedCited by 98 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

William Coons appeals from the district court’s order under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e), which reversed, on statute of limitations grounds, a $328,000 judgment in his favor against appellee Industrial Knife Company. He also appeals from the district court’s award of attorney’s fees and expenses to Industrial Knife in connection with his untimely designation of expert witnesses. We affirm both the judgment for Industrial Knife and the award of attorney’s fees.

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Coons commenced this diversity action on September 29, 2003, exactly three years after he suffered a…

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