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From 317 U.S. 173 - Sola Electric Co. v. Jefferson Electric Co. · 1942Most cited · 967 citing opinions
the doctrine of that case is inapplicable to those areas of judicial decision within which the policy of the law is so dominated by the sweep of federal statutes that legal relations which they affect must be deemed governed by federal law having its source in those statutes, rather than by local law