United States v. Santay-Rosales

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that in a diversity case premised on state law, when “one is barred from recovery in the state court, he should likewise be barred in the federal court’
• affirming district court’s dismissal of case pursuant to state door-closing statute on ground that where a party is barred from recovery in state court, he should likewise be barred in federal court
• stating that alternative holdings are not dicta
• “[T]he policy of Erie ... precluded] maintenance in . . . federal court ... of suits to which the State ha[s] closed its courts.”
• state statute barring foreign corporations not qualified to do business in state from suing in state courts barred suit in federal diversity action
• “where a decision rests on two or more grounds, none can be relegated to the category of obiter dictum”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).