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23 Apr 2024, 12:36 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Tompkins, in which the Supreme Court held that federal courts must apply state law in diversity jurisdiction cases. [read post]
21 May 2023, 9:01 pm by renholding
This post comes to us from Professor John Coyle at the University of North Carolina School of Law. [read post]
7 Oct 2022, 1:53 pm by Kalvis Golde
Tompkins, federal courts sitting in diversity should apply federal or state law to determine the validity of forum-selection clauses. [read post]
13 Aug 2021, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Tompkins that federal courts must apply state law in diversity cases as opposed to the Swift v. [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 5:42 am by bhorton
I am grateful to Athul Acharya, Janine Balekdjian, John Hasley, Allie Hemmings, Robert Parker, and Collin Seals for their thoughtful and speedy feedback. [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 5:42 am
I am grateful to Athul Acharya, Janine Balekdjian, John Hasley, Allie Hemmings, Robert Parker, and Collin Seals for their thoughtful and speedy feedback. [read post]
7 Oct 2020, 3:23 pm by John Elwood
John Elwood reviews the relists from the “long conference” … barely. [read post]
20 May 2019, 9:18 am by Schachtman
Thus a federal trial court in Kentucky, applying Indiana law, granted summary judgment to a respirator manufacturer, on the basis of the sophisticated intermediary defense, in a post-OSHA asbestos lung cancer case.[11] Similarly, a Virginia state trial court, notwithstanding the application of Virginia law in the Willis and Oman federal cases upheld the sophisticated intermediary defense as a complete legal defense for asbestos sales after 1970.[12] The decisions in these asbestos cases with only… [read post]
8 Nov 2018, 9:36 am by Joe Consumer
Litigation: "We're going to see a significant increase in litigating and policymaking at the state level with this new leadership," said Hogan Lovells partner Hilary Tompkins, a former solicitor at the U.S. [read post]
6 Aug 2018, 11:43 am by Anthony Gaughan
Tompkins, decided just a few weeks before Cardozo’s death. [read post]