Legal Opinion
Virginia Modave v. Long Island Jewish Medical Center and the County of Nassau (Meadowbrook Hospital)
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 27, 1974No. 906, Docket 73-1470PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:
In this case we are forced to decide questions of New York law on which, as Judge J. Skelly Wright has said with elegant understatement, “state law on the point at issue is less than immaculately clear.” 1 We must do this because plaintiff, a former American Airlines stewardess living on Long Island, alleged that at the time the suit was filed she was a citizen and resident of Florida, and the defendants Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJ) and the County of Nassau, which operates Meadowbrook Hospital, are citizens of New York. It is unfortunate that the rights of…
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