Gulf & Mississippi River Transportation Co. v. BP Oil Pipeline Co.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that federal courts sitting in diversity should determine as best they can what the Louisiana Supreme Court would do when deciding issues of unsettled Louisiana law
• “To determine Louisiana law . . . , this Court should first look to final decisions of the Louisiana Supreme Court.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• When making an Erie guess, courts are to rely upon “decisions of the [Louisiana] Supreme Court in analogous cases, . . . [and] the rationales and analyses underlying [Louisiana] Supreme Court decisions on related issues.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).