Mason v. Southern New England Conference Ass'n of Seventh-Day Adventists

SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.

This diversity case, in which the plaintiff-appellant seeks damages for injuries she sustained on the defendant’s negligently maintained premises, presents two issues on appeal. The first is a choice of law question, and the second concerns the scope of Massachusetts’ charitable immunity statute. Because we hold that Massachusetts law should govern and that the defendant is protected by the immunity statute, we affirm.

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The defendant, the Southém New England Conference Association of Seventh-*136Day Adventists (“Association”), is stipulated by the parties to be a…