· 7/12/1988
Suzanne E. Tidler, and Helene Mankowitz v. Eli Lilly and Company
Citations
- 851 F.2d 418
- 271 U.S. App. D.C. 163
- 1988 U.S. App. LEXIS 9315
- 1988 WL 70700
How courts have described this case
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- finding that under Maryland law there was no cause of action based on alleged concert of action
- noting that “[t]he most important consideration guiding the exercise of this discretion . . . is whether the reviewing court finds itself genuinely uncertain about a question of state law . . .”
- allowing court to assume choice of law was correct since neither party raised the issue
- “We must apply the law of the forum as we infer it presently to be, not as it might come to be.”
- allowing DES claim to proceed under Massachusetts law
- permitting analysis of claims under laws of two states
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Judges: Ginsburg, Buckley
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