Holding that where there was an overlap in the sentence the defendant advocated and the range used by the court (which in any case the court of appeals believed to be correct) and the sentencing court made clear that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the range, the error was harmless
Holding in a civil forfeiture action that “a witness' direct testimony can be stricken if she invokes the fifth amendment on cross-examination to shield that testimony from scrutiny”
Holding that selective assertion of Fifth Amendment privilege to thwart opposing party's ability to take deposition testimony then use of that testimony to defeat summary judgment was improper
Holding that police report regarding cause of accident was inadmissible as business record because source of information was unknown as was information concerning when or under what circumstances information was obtained from source
In Gonzales v. North Township of Lake County, 800 F. Supp. 676, 684 (N.D. Ind. 1992), the district court considered the constitutionality of a monument installed in 1955 and challenged 30 years later.
In Southern Concrete Co. v. United States Steel Corp., 394 F. Supp. 362, 377-78 (N.D.Ga. 1975), aff'd, 535 F.2d 313 (5th Cir. 1976), cert. denied, 429 U.S. 1096, 97 S.Ct. 1113, 51 L.Ed.2d 543 (1977) (appeals taken on other issues), the court rejected the purchaser-standing requirement, directing that a nonpurchaser who was injured by reason of the price discrimination could bring an action under Section 2(a). That court relied on a previous Fifth Circuit case, Littlejohn v. Shell Oil Co., 483 F.2d 1140, cert. denied, 414 U.S. 1116, 94 S.Ct. 849, 38 L.Ed.2d 743 (1973).
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Stating that " witness may testify only if evidence is introduced sufficient to support a finding that the witness has personal knowledge of the matter"