Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
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erie-railroad-co-v-tompkins-175-2437072
title:
Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
text:
Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court held that the United States does not have a general federal common law and that U.S. federal courts must apply state law, not federal law, to lawsuits between parties from different states that do not involve federal questions. In reaching this holding, the Court overturned almost a century of federal civil procedure case law, and established the foundation of the modern law of divers
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1938 U.S. Supreme Court case on diversity jurisdiction
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie_Railroad_Co._v._Tompkins
date created:
2005-03-22T20:00:49Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T00:03:23Z
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