Legal Opinion
Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 2, 1941No. 741PublishedCited by 8,571 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Reed
The principal question in this case is whether in diversity cases the federal courts must follow conflict of laws rules prevailing in the states in which they sit. We left this open in Ruhlin v. New York Life Insurance Co., 304 U. S. 202, 208, n. 2. The frequent recurrence of the problem, as well as the conflict of approach to the problem between the Third Circuit’s' opinion here and that of the First Circuit in Sampson v. Channell, 110 F. 2d 754, 759-62, led us to grant certiorari.
In 1918, respondent, a New York corporation, transferred its entire business to petitioner, a Delaware…
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