Legal Opinion
Limor v. Weinstein & Sutton (In Re SMEC, Inc.)
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
Decided October 27, 1993No. 2:92-0095PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
WISEMAN, District Judge.
Before the court are the defendants’ motions for summary judgment. To decide these motions, the court must decide whether a federal district court sitting pursuant to its bankruptcy jurisdiction must apply the choice of law provision of the forum state or whether it may make an independent choice of law. It is this court’s conclusion that the forum state’s choice of law provision is not binding in such a case, but rather the law of the state with the greater interests in the matter should control. Applying this test to the facts of the present case, New…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of CatrettSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Butner v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by25 opinions
- In Re: Gaston & Snow, Debtor, Alfred J. Bianco, as Plan Administrator to the Estate of Gaston & Snow v. Robert A. Erkins & Bernadine ErkinsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2001
- Limor v. Buerger (In Re Del-Met Corp.)United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Tennessee · 2005
- Schnelling v. Crawford (In Re James River Coal Co.)United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Virginia · 2007
- Jafari v. Wynn Las Vegas, LLC (In Re Jafari)Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2009
- Rieser v. Baudendistel (In Re Buckeye Countrymark, Inc.)United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Ohio · 2000
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