D. C. Transit System, Inc. v. Democratic Central Committee of the District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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• holding that if state law is unclear federal courts must pre- dict the decision of the state's highest court
• explaining that \a federal court sitting in diversity has a duty to apply the operative state law as would the highest court of the state in which the suit was brought\
• observing that decisions of a state’s intermediate appellate court “may be disregarded if the federal court is convinced by other persuasive data that the highest court of the state would decide otherwise” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• applying New Jersey law and upholding a determination, in a declaratory judgment action, that insurance company could withdraw a defense before trial
• listing factors for a federal court to take into account when predicting how a state's highest court would rule on a particular issue
• “[A] federal court sitting in diversity has a duty to apply the operative state law as would the highest court of the state in which the suit was brought.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).