Nancy H. Steorts v. American Airlines, Inc

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the substantive law of the forum controls in diversity cases in the District as it does in a state
• “Prior to 1971, the federal courts in the District of Columbia were authoritative expositors of local . . . law”
• “[D]eference due to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals as the highest court of the District require the federal courts here to abide by the guidelines established by Erie and its progeny.”
• federal courts are bound by forum state’s law regarding statutes of limitations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).