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123679P.pdf   07/11/2014  Fernando Valadez  v.  Watkins Motor Lines
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  12-3679
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Kelly, Author, with Gruender and Bright, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Personal injury. Where the district court had ruled before 
   trial that an accident report was inadmissible, plaintiff's question to an 
   officer as to whether a box on the accident report was checked did not 
   justify defendant's subsequent questions concerning other elements of the 
   report, including the officer's opinions and conclusions from the report; 
   introduction of this evidence was improper, had a substantial influence on 
   the jury's verdict and requires reversal for a new trial.