United States First Circuit

Under the circumstances, by redacting the operative cause of death language from the death certificate on the ground that it lacked persuasive force, the district court invaded the jury's province and thus exceeded the scope of its discretion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/15/2003
• Published 05/15/2003

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Philip N. Beauregard, with whom John A. Markey, Jr. and Beauregard, Burke & Franco were on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Curtis Diedrich, with whom Alan B. Rindler, Nadine Nasser Donovan, Rindler•Morgan, P.C., William J. Davenport, Richard M. Haley, Bloom & Buell, Stacey Morris, and Sloane & Walsh, LLP were on consolidated brief, for individual appellees., J. Peter Kelley, with whom Martin C. Foster and Foster & Eldridge were on brief, for appellee Southcoast Health Systems, Inc., d/b/a Charlton Memorial Hospital.