Opinion · Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Edgewater Hospital, Inc. v. Bowen

866 F.2d 228

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”

Citator

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