Legal Opinion
Nortek, Inc. v. Molnar
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided February 22, 1999No. 98-258LPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
LAGUEUX, Chief Judge.
Of all the lakes in all the states in all the ' world, Sigfried Molnar had to live near Lake Erie.
Molnar was living near Cleveland when he became senior vice president of Nortek, Inc. in 1990, but he did not move to the company’s Providence headquarters. He wanted to live in Grand Island, New York, a suburb of Buffalo just north of the same Great Lake that had lapped near his home in Ohio.
Molnar’s apparent affinity for the Lake is central to this ease because this Court works in accordance with the dictates of another Erie, namely the choice of law…
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