Legal Opinion
Salve Regina College v. Russell
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 20, 1991No. 89-1629PublishedCited by 2,214 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
The concept of a federal general common law, lurking (to use Justice Holmes’ phrase) as a “brooding omnipresence in the sky,” was questioned for some time before being firmly rejected in Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U. S. 64 (1938). See Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen, 244 U. S. 205, 222 (1917) (Holmes, J., dissenting); Black & White Taxicab & Transfer Co. v. Brown & Yellow Taxicab & Transfer Co., 276 U. S. 518, 533 (1928) (dissenting opinion). Erie mandates that a federal court sitting in diversity apply the substantive law of the forum State, absent a federal statutory or constitutional…
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