Sadighi v. Daghighfekr’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1961
Relies on Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America · United States v. ITT Continental Baking Co. · Teodore Dorotee Autera v. Manuel Dudley Robinson, Anthony C. Autera v. Manuel Dudley Robinson · Hitachi Credit America Corp. v. Signet Bank · Fairfax Countywide Citizens Ass'n v. County of Fairfax
Most-quoted passages
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“To provide some content to federal common law, a district court “is free to choose any rule it deems appropriate, and it may look for guidance to other federal contexts, to what it perceives to be first principles, to considerations of equity and convenience, or to the law of the forum state.” Charles Alan Wright et al., Federal Practice & Procedure § 4514, at 457 (1996). As the Fourth Circuit put it, district courts should “seek the appropriate federal rule in the usual sources — the best-reasoned decisions in the general common law.” Gamewell Mfg., Inc., 715 F.2d at 115 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Settlements and releases assertedly entered into in respect of federal litigation already in progress implicate federal procedural interests distinct from the underlying substantive interests of the parties. Once a claim — whatever its jurisdictional basis — is initiated in the federal courts, we believe that the standards by which that litigation may be settled, and hence resolved short of adjudication on the merits, are preeminently a matter for resolution by federal common law principles, independently derived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In many cases, relevant factors may indicate that the federal courts should follow or “adopt” the law of the forum state as the governing rule of decision, although it will be doing so as a matter of federal law. In other words, the federal courts may apply state law — not because of any compulsion to do so ... but because federal interests would not be impaired by doing so, state law is “already there,” people are familiar with it, and the state rule is not inimical to federal interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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