Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.
Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co., Inc. | |
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Argued May 1–2, 1941 Decided June 2, 1941 | |
Full case name | Klaxon Company v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Company, Inc. |
Citations | 313 U.S. 487 (more) 61 S. Ct. 1020; 85 L. Ed. 1477; 1941 U.S. LEXIS 1298; 49 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 515 |
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Case opinion | |
Majority | Reed, joined by unanimous |
Klaxon Company v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Company, 313 U.S. 487 (1941), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court applied the choice-of-law principles of Erie Railroad v. Tompkins to conflicts between laws of different states for cases sitting in federal court on diversity jurisdiction. The court held that a federal court sitting in diversity must apply the choice-of-law doctrine of the forum state to choose between the forum state's law and the other state's law (as distinguished from the federal choice-of-law doctrines which had been used before Erie).[1]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Yeazell, S.C. Civil Procedure, Seventh Edition. Aspen Publishers, New York, NY: 2008, p. 231
External links[]
- Text of Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co., 313 U.S. 487 (1941) is available from: Justia Library of Congress
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- United States Supreme Court cases
- United States Supreme Court cases of the Hughes Court
- Diversity jurisdiction case law
- 1941 in United States case law
- Conflict of laws case law