Chila v. Owens

OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

The New York State Court of Appeals has blazed new trails in choice-in-law rules in guest-host negligence suits 1 where the lex loci delictus is in conflict with that of New York State. The various guest-host cases considered by the Court of Appeals in its new approach have been “particularly troublesome,” 2 and, as readily acknowledged by its distinguished Chief Judge, “have not featured consistency.” 3 This case presents still another variant of choice-of-law problems, which appear not to have been definitively resolved by New York’s highest court,…