Commercial Union Insurance Company v. Walbrook Insurance Co., Ltd., Commercial Union Insurance Company v. National Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that state substantive law must be applied in state-based declaratory judgment actions brought in federal court
• guoting Elias v. Ford Motor Co., 734 F.2d 463, 465 (1st Cir. 1984)
• under Erie doctrine, federal courts sitting in diversity jurisdiction are generally obligated to apply state law
• when sitting in diversity, a federal court must apply the substantive law of the forum state
• \the law of the case is a prudential doctrine and does not serve as a absolute bar to . . . reconsideration of an issue\
• “A declaratory judgment is not a theory of recovery.”

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