Opinion · Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Edgewater Hospital, Inc. v. Bowen

Edgewater Hosp., Inc. v. Bowen, 866 F.2d 228 (7th Cir. 1988)

Type
Opinion
Court
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1988-09-15
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • providing that a decision “must strike us as more than just maybe or probably wrong; it must ... strike us as wrong with the force of a fiveweek-old, unrefrigerated dead fish”
  • providing that a decision “must strike us as more than just maybe or probably wrong; it must . . . strike us as wrong with the force of a five-week-old, unrefrigerated dead fish”
  • describing the clearly erroneous standard as follows: “ ‘[M]ore than just maybe or probably wrong; it must *** strike us as wrong with the force of a five-week-old, unrefrigerated dead fish’ ”
  • law-of-the-case doctrine compelled finding of market power in replacement parts for single-brand engine
  • "Ordinarily, matters decided on a prior appeal become the law of the case to be followed on a later appeal.”
  • "To be clearly erroneous, a decision must . . . strike us as wrong with the force of a five-week-old, unrefrigerated dead fish."
  • “As a general rule, the [law-of-the-case] doctrine does not extend to issues not presented or decided . . . .”
  • for an appellate court to reverse under a clearly erroneous standard, the decision must “strike us as wrong with the force of five-week old, unrefrigerated dead fish”

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