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· 6/13/1994

O'Melveny & Myers v. Federal Deposit Insurance

Citations

  • 512 U.S. 79
  • 114 S. Ct. 2048
  • 129 L. Ed. 2d 67
  • 1994 U.S. LEXIS 4446
  • 94 Daily Journal DAR 8305
  • 8 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 240
  • 94 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 4360
  • 62 U.S.L.W. 4487

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that state, not federal, law governs the imputation of wrongful conduct to a corporation that is asserting state law causes of action
  • \We conclude that this is not one of those extraordinary cases in which the judicial creation of a federal rule of decision is warranted.\
  • “there is no federal policy that the fund should always win”
  • rendering matters left unaddressed in FIRREA controlled by state law
  • describing FIRREA as \comprehensive legislation\

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Judges: Scalia, Stevens, Blackmun, O'Connor, Souter

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