Chin v. CHRYSLER LLC

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that state law governs substantive state law claims in a federal court when the court’s jurisdiction to hear those claims is based on supplemental or diversity jurisdiction
• where “no substantive provision of [a state’s] law was ever pled,” state fee-shifting statutes do not apply
• under the Erie doctrine, “if the matter is substantive, the court must apply the substantive law of the forum state”
• “When a district court’s jurisdiction is predicated on diversity of the parties, or when the court hears a state-law claim based on its supplemental jurisdiction ... the court must determine whether under Erie ... a matter is substantive or procedural.”
• scope of employment determined under Pennsylvania state law

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