Legal Opinion
Warriner v. Stanton
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided January 18, 2007No. 05-3435PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FISHER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court for the District of New Jersey granting the defendant’s motion for summary judgment in a diversity action. The sole issue presented on appeal is whether the District Court erred in its choice of law analysis. Applying New Jersey’s “governmental interest” test, which requires a court to consider the nature and magnitude of each state’s interest in having its law govern a particular issue, the District Court concluded Delaware had a stronger interest than New Jersey in seeing its tort statute of…
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