East Prairie R-2 School Dist. v. US Gypsum Co.

How courts have described this case

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• using the Restatement-based choice of law rules of Missouri to determine that, while contractual choice of law clause applied to contract terms, Mississippi law controlled successor liability issue
• no merger where predecessor corporation acquired 2.27% of successor's common stock and companies shared no common officers, directors, principal shareholders or control
• “[T]he laws of different states may be used to resolve different issues in a single case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).