Clinton Williams v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “A federal court sitting in diversity must apply the choice-of-law rules of the state in which it sits.”
• “[T]he choice of which state’s law applies is crucial to [a plaintiff’s] ability to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.”
• “We agree that the issue in this case is a substantive rather than procedural matter because it determines whether [the plaintiff] has a viable cause of action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).