KEBEDE v. HILTON

No. 08-3326.

580 F.3d 714 (2009)

Lemlem S. KEBEDE, Appellant, v. Hayley R. HILTON, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: September 4, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Christenson, argued, Sioux Falls, SD, for appellant.

Hiram I. King, III, argued, Thomas P. Tonner, on the brief, Aberdeen, SD, for appellee.

Before SMITH and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges, and LIMBAUGH, District Judge.


SMITH, Circuit Judge.

Minnesota residents Lemlem S. Kebede and Ernest Christiansen married in 1998. While working in South Dakota in 2002, Christiansen began an extramarital affair with Hayley R. Hilton, a coworker. Kebede and Christiansen divorced after Kebede learned of the affair, and Kebede brought a diversity action in federal district court against Hilton for alienation of affections under state law. At trial, the district court2

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