Pnc Bank v. Richard Sterba

Concurrence by Judge TASHIMA

OPINION

KORMAN, District Judge:

When it comes to conflicts of law, bankruptcy is a bit of an odd duck. The substantive focus is often on state law, as it always is in diversity eases. But where a federal court sitting in diversity applies the forum state’s choice-of-law rules — a straightforward policy that prevents the forum’s federal character from determining the outcome of disputes that are really about state law — we have held that in bankruptcy, federal choice-of-law rules control which state’s law applies. Lindsay v. Beneficial Reinsurance Co. (In re Lindsay),…