California Supreme Court· 2/18/2010

McCann v. Foster Wheeler LLC

Citations

48 Cal. 4th 68
225 P.3d 516

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holding that Oklahoma had an interest in applying its statute of repose to a products-liability action involving improvements to real property in Oklahoma, even though the defendant was not an Oklahoma company
recognizing that although California no longer uniformly applied the law of the jurisdiction in which the allegedly tortious conduct occurred, Oklahoma’s interests “would be more impaired if its law were not applied” as the plaintiff’s exposure to asbestos occurred in Oklahoma
determining that law of state of exposure to asbestos governs rather than law of state where diagnosis of mesothelioma occurred
pointing out that the geographic location of an omission is the place of the transaction where it should have been disclosed
“[T]he earlier methodology for resolving choice-of-law issues has been replaced in this state by the governmental interest mode of analysis.”
governmental interest test, a product of common law, does not apply when the California legislature has passed a statute that 22 unambiguously resolves the choice of law issue

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