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051739P.pdf 03/16/2006 Steven Menz v. New Holland N. A.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 05-1739
Eastern District of Missouri
[PUBLISHED] [Bye, Author, with Heaney and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - torts. Under Missouri law, a repairer's duty to warn does
not include a duty to warn of general dangers unrelated to the specific
repair work performed, and plaintiffs could not rely on a duty-to-warn-of-
general-dangers claim against the repairer in order to avoid a finding that
the repairer had been fraudulently joined for the purpose of destroying
diversity jurisdiction; district court did not err in denying the motion to
remand to state court; the district court erred in dismissing the law suit as
a sanction for spoilation of evidence without first finding plaintiff had
acted in bad faith.