Esso Standard v. Steamship Arosa Sun

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that 9 “[b]ecause ‘[a] person may be competent to make some decisions but not others,’ the test of a 10 party's competency ‘varies from one context to another’”
• explaining the relationship between capacity to sue, which is governed by Fed. R. Civ. P. 17(b), and competency to sue, which is discussed in Fed. R. Civ. P. 17(c), and why the law of an individual’s domicile governs both
• explaining the relationship between capacity to sue, which is governed by Fed. R. Civ. P. 17(b), and competency to sue, which is discussed in Fed. R. Civ. P. 17(c), and why the law of an individual’s domicile governs both
• explaining the relationship between capacity to sue, which is governed by Fed. R. Civ. P. 17(b), and competency to sue, which is discussed in Fed. R. Civ. P. 17(c), and why the law of an individual’s domicile governs both
• “[A] district court’s decision whether to appoint a guardian ad litem is purely procedural and wholly uninformed by state law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).