LeFRERE v. QUEZADA

No. 09-10024.

582 F.3d 1260 (2009)

Suzanne LeFRERE, Personal Representative of the Estate of Ross Paul Yates, deceased, Elaine Garner, Personal Representative of the Estate of Ross Paul Yates, deceased, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Jorge QUEZADA, Defendant-Appellant, Baldwin County Commission, James B. Johnson, Steve Arthur, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 11, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tracy P. Turner, Johnstone Adams, Mobile, AL, for Quezada.

Thomas E. James, Morris, Haynes & Mornsby, Birmingham, AL, for LeFrere.

Kristi Allen McDonald, McDonald & McDonald, Birmingham, AL, for Amicus Curiae.

Before CARNES and PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and DOWD, District Judge.


CARNES, Circuit Judge:

Because state supreme courts are the final arbiters of state law, "when we write to a state law issue, we write in faint and disappearing ink," and "once the state supreme court speaks the effect of anything we have written vanishes like the proverbial bat in daylight, only faster." Sultenfuss v. Snow, 35 F.3d 1494, 1504 (11th Cir.1994) (Carnes, J., dissenting). A dozen years ago we held that under Alabama...

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