Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Universal Underwriters Insurance v. Gerrish Corp.
Universal Underwriters Ins. v. Gerrish Corp., 504 U.S. 973 (1992)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1992-06-08
- Topic
- commercial
How later courts describe this case
- finding that absence of instruction was not reversible error because instructions as a whole, which included theory of case instruction, correctly charged jury
- state labeling a crime as a misdemeanor makes no difference for purposes of sentence enhancement. Under Taylor, the construction of federal laws not dependent on state law
- the district court adopted a special master's conclusions that groundwater was not "owned or controlled" by the insured, so that a policy exclusion on those grounds could not defeat coverage
Citator
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.