Legal Opinion
Vincent De Frontbrune v. Alan Wofsy
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 26, 2016No. 14-15790PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
Justice Holmes once observed that foreign legal systems can appear to the uninitiated “like a wall of stone,” impenetrable and unyielding. Diaz v. Gonzalez, 261 U.S. 102, 106, 43 S.Ct. 286, 67 L.Ed. 550 (1923) (Holmes, J.). For over a century, the federal courts attempted to scale this stone wall by treating questions of foreign law as questions of fact to be pleaded and proved. But over the years, this method proved unsatisfactory, obscuring rather than illuminating the content and nuance of foreign laws. Finally, in 1966, following a proliferation of…
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