DIJO, INC. v. HILTON HOTELS CORP.

No. 03-60010.

351 F.3d 679 (2003)

DIJO, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HILTON HOTELS CORP., Park Place Entertainment Corp.; The Grand Casino, Inc.; BL Development Corp.; and BL Resorts I, L.L.C., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Revised December 10, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LeAnn Walber Mercer, W. Scott Welch, III, Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Canada, James W. Kitchens, Kitchens & Ellis, Jackson, MS, Richard H. Middleton, Jr. (argued), Suggs, Kelly & Middleton, Savannah, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Harry Mitchell Cowan (argued), Vikki J. Taylor, Frank Edwin McRae, III, Watkins, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, Jackson, MS, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before JOLLY and WIENER, Circuit Judges, and WALTER, District Judge.


WIENER, Circuit Judge:

After a trial in which the jury found for the Plaintiff-Appellee DIJO, Inc. and awarded it $8 million in damages, the Defendants-Appellants appeal, alleging numerous errors that purportedly occurred in the district court. For the reasons explained below, we affirm the judgment on the jury's finding of liability but remand for a new trial on the issue of damages.

I. BACKGROUND FACTS

DIJO, Inc. ("DIJO") is a two-person company...

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