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· 5/9/2013

Les Kepley v. Gerald Lanz

Citations

  • 715 F.3d 969
  • 2013 WL 1908395
  • 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 9384

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a federal court applying state law “must follow the decisions of the state’s highest court when that court has addressed the relevant issue”
  • explaining that a federal court “may rely on the state’s intermediate appellate court decisions” in anticipating how the state’s highest court would rule
  • “In diversity cases, a federal court must rely upon the substantive law of the forum state.”
  • “In diversity cases, a federal court must rely upon the substantive law of the forum No. 18-4267 Perry v. Allstate Indemnity Co., et al. Page 13 state.”
  • “Standing ‘goes to [a c]ourt’s subject matter jurisdiction[.]”

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Judges: Sutton, Stranch, Steeh

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