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Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court held that the United States does not have a general federal common law and that U.S. federal courts must apply state law, not federal law, to lawsuits between parties from different states that do not involve federal questions.
A more recent Supreme Court case that addressed the Erie problem is Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, 518 U.S. 415 (1996). Gasperini is a post-Hanna decision addressing a conflict between state and federal law for review of jury verdicts. The plaintiff, a well-known artist and photographer from New York, sued a New York museum in federal ...
Brown and Yellow Taxicab and Transfer Company, 276 U.S. 518 (1928), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court refused to hold that federal courts sitting in diversity jurisdiction must apply state common law. Ten years later, in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, the Court reversed course, and overturned Swift v. Tyson.
That same year, the Erie was involved in the U.S. Supreme Court case, the Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins. The Erie doctrine, which governs the application of state common law in federal courts, is still taught in American law schools, as of 2024.
Mead first heard Karash's case after Karash was found guilty of the summary offense at a trial before Erie 1st Ward District Judge Sue Mack in June 2016. Karas appealed, and Mead in September 2016 ...
The settlement also ends the chance for the plaintiff, who no longer works at the restaurant, to further detail her claims and present her case to a jury in U.S. District Court in Erie.
[11] Finally, he addressed the constitutionality of the Court's holding in light of Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, [12] which held that the federal courts cannot create a federal common law and must defer to the prevailing state interpretations in substantive matters.
The lawyer, James P. Miller, engaged in "serial neglect" of his Erie County cases from 2019 to 2021, according to a disciplinary report that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court adopted in issuing the ...