Arno v. Club Med Boutique Inc.

SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal raises an unusual conflict of law issue. Appellant Carolyn Arno’s supervisor sexually assaulted her while she was working at a Club Med resort in Guadeloupe, which is governed by French law. In Arno’s first appeal, we decided that French law, as *1425the law'of the place where the tort occurred,, rather than the law of California, the forum state and residence of the plaintiff, governed the substance of her tort action. Arno v. Club Med, Inc., 22 F.3d 1464, 1468 (9th Cir.1994). The parties subsequently settled the substantive issues of the case, reserving the…