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21 Jan 2025, 5:01 am by Eric Claeys
Tompkins, federal courts are averse to developing federal law and disposed to rely on state law. [read post]
10 Mar 2014, 10:19 am by kroosevelt
Tompkins is one of our biggest, most important cases. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 6:17 pm by Gilles Cuniberti
Tompkins, a federal court must follow state supreme court decisions when interpreting state law. [read post]
3 Apr 2008, 2:04 am
Tompkins was decided seventy years ago, federal courts today are seen as more favorable to corporate and business interests than many of their state-court brethren. [read post]
31 Oct 2023, 5:17 am by Will Baude
[with implications for the pending Supreme Court case of United States v. [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 5:47 am
Tompkins, 304 U.S. 74 (1938), when federal courts preside over cases brought under their “diversity jurisdiction,” which lets them hear suits involving people from different U.S. states, they applystate law in making relevant decisions. [read post]
26 Feb 2012, 2:28 pm by Kurt T. Koehler
Tompkins abolished the old federal common law and forced federal courts to apply state law in cases heard under diversity jurisdiction. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 8:55 am by Lawrence Solum
Tompkins, a federal court must follow state supreme court decisions when interpreting state law. [read post]
26 Mar 2011, 7:36 am by Lawrence Solum
Tompkins, a federal court must follow state supreme court decisions when interpreting state 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]
10 Jul 2008, 11:57 pm
Tompkins, 304 U.S. 61 (1938) (overturning Swift v. [read post]
12 Nov 2013, 1:40 pm
Tompkins that federal courts sitting in diversity jurisdiction should not usurp the function of state appellate courts and predict expansions of state tort law. [read post]