68 F. Supp. 2d 703 - Swaim v. Fogle’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
February 2004
most recently cited
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Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · DiAntonio v. Northampton-Accomack Memorial Hospital · Adkins v. Virginia ex rel. University of Virginia Medical Center
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“[T]he [VMMA] neither contains a procedure for assigning a case pending in federal court to the state circuit court, nor authorizes a federal court to enforce such a right. At this stage of the litigation, the state court has no jurisdiction over the case, and this Court has no authority to confer jurisdiction upon it. Without either an express method of transferring the case or a means of enforcing the purpose of the transfer, this Court would have to invent a procedure and thereby rewrite the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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