Soletanche Inc v. L.P.C. & D Inc

How courts have described this case

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

• holding federal courts may disregard state appellate court decisions if convinced highest state court would decide otherwise
• forcing federal courts to consider cases handed down by intermediate state appellate courts under Erie
• \[T]he rules of decision established by judicial decisions of state courts are 'laws' as well as those prescribed by statute.\
• “[T]he rules of decision established by judicial decisions of state courts are ‘laws’ as well as those prescribed by statute.”
• federal court sitting in diversity “is not free to reject the state rule merely because it has not received the sanction of the highest state court”
• see also Docket No. 27, Pl. Memo. at 22

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).