Lewis Wright v. Jean Jones, Individually, and Dorothy Sharkey, as Next Friend and Agent of Jean Marie Wright

How courts have described this case

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• holding Boseman is “no longer valid general 2 federal common law” because it was overruled by Erie
• interpreting the Judiciary Act of 1789 to command application of state law in diversity cases only where a state statute is at issue
• Story, J., holding that “the laws of the several states” in the Judiciary Act of 1789 means only the statutory law of the States
• Story, J., holding that “the laws of the several states” in the Judiciary Act of 1789 means only the statutory law of the States
• Story, J., holding that “the laws of the several states” in the Judiciary Act of 1789 means only the statutory law of the States
• “[F]ederal courts, in the exercise of their equitable powers, may award attorneys’ fees when the interests of justice so require.”

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