Carlos Sanchez v. Laura Sanchez

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the \litigation provoking problem” in deciding whether federal jurisdiction exists in such cases is determining \the degree to which federal law must be in the forefront of the case and not be remote, collateral or peripheral”
• looking to substantive state law and concluding that a state statute’s damage cap was a “limitation of damages” rather than an affirmative defense
• federal government liability is determined in accordance with the law of the place where the tort occurred
• plurality opinion by Frankfurter, J.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).