Doug Burchfield, a General Mills employee, was severely injured after a loaded railcar unexpectedly rolled down a railway sidetrack leading from a CSX line to a General Mills plant. Burchfield sued CSX and the company that owned the railcar, alleging that CSX negligently delivered the car to General Mills with a faulty handbrake, which caused…
Tag: Collateral estoppel
Ex-Wife Who Was Fraudulently Transferred Millions Of Dollars Can’t Get Relief From Paying Her Ex-Husband’s Creditors, But She Doesn’t Have To Pay Punitive Damages Awarded Against Him
The Eleventh Circuit published a fraudulent-transfer decision in Alliant Tax Credit 31, Inc. v. Murphy, 2019 WL 2121297 (11th Cir. May 15, 2019). With appeals from both sides, the court tediously worked its way through numerous issues on appeal. Most of these involved state law questions, but the court in an opinion by Judge Tjoflat…
Federal Common Law Applies State Preclusion Rules to Judgments in Diversity Cases
The Eleventh Circuit cleaned up some conflicting precedent this week and confirmed that state-law rules determine the preclusive effect of judgments rendered by federal courts in diversity cases. In deciding that question in CSX Transportation, Inc. v. General Mills, Inc., 2017 WL 393704 (11th Cir. Jan. 30, 2017), the court reversed the district court’s judgment…