Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.

Klaxon Company v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Company

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
Court membership
Case opinions
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

  1. Yeazell, S.C. Civil Procedure, Seventh Edition. Aspen Publishers, New York, NY: 2008, p. 231
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