Legal Opinion
Jerome Feinstein v. Massachusetts General Hospital
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 10, 1981No. 80-1283PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KEETON, District Judge.
This appeal turns on whether the Rules of Decision Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1652, and the doctrine announced in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64, 58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188 (1938), require the federal courts to apply certain provisions of the Massachusetts medical malpractice statute, Mass.Gen. Laws ch. 231, § 60B, in medical malpractice actions in which federal jurisdiction is based solely on the diversity of citizenship of the parties. Before stating the issues more precisely, we outline the facts of the case and briefly describe Massachusetts’ procedure for…
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