Michael Gilbert v. Seton Hall University

Judge SOTOMAYOR dissents with a separate opinion.

JON 0. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal concerns choice of law with respect to charitable immunity. The spe*107cific issue is whether New York, the forum state, would apply New Jersey law, which preserves charitable immunity, or the law of New York or Connecticut, both of which have abolished such immunity, to a tort claim brought against a New Jersey university by a Connecticut student attending the university who was injured while participating in an extracurricular sporting event in New York. Michael Gilbert appeals from the December 8, 2000,…