Bernhard v. Harrah's Club

How courts have described this case

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• holding party 17 seeking to \invoke the law\ of non-forum state has burden to demonstrate other state's 18 law applies
• noting that two states’ differing interests regarding civil liability of tavern keepers were “legitimate but conflicting”
• applying California law where the tort occurred in Nevada but the harm was felt in California
• superseded by statute on other ground as stated in Cory v. Shierloh, 29 Cal.3d 430, 434, 174 Cal.Rptr. 500, 629 P.2d 8 (1981)
• since defendant, a Nevada casino located near California state line, had advertised in and solicited trade from California, it had established a nexus with that state and voluntarily subjected itself to California tort law
• resolving what, at first glance, appear to be true conflicts

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