John Johnson v. Ventra Group, Inc. And Ventratech Limited

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “§ 188 only applies to cases where the parties have not contractually agreed to a choice of law provision” and finding that, because the plaintiff agreed to a contractual choice of law provision, the section did not apply
• using employee’s breached contract with former employer to supply proper state law to apply to potential liability of employer’s “successor,” primarily because employee bargained for choice of law clause
• “[A] federal court whose jurisdiction is based on diversity of citizenship must apply the conflict of law rules of the forum state.”
• “The fact . . . that a different result might be achieved if the law of the chosen forum is applied does not suffice to show that the foreign law is repugnant to a fundamental policy of the forum state.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).