Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. v. Peter J. McNulty Law Firm

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that in a class-action settlement where “[t]he settlement agreement itself has no agreement that federal law applies,” state-law principles govern the award of fees
• explaining that “[s]pecial rules apply in MDL cases as to determining the forum state” and collecting cases in which transferee MDL courts have applied the choice of law rules of the transferor court the plaintiff initially filed in
• stating “interpreting [settlement] agreements and their scope is a matter of state contract law”
• A federal court sitting in diversity applies the law that would be applied under the choice-of-law rules of the forum state
• A federal court sitting in diversity applies the law that would be applied under the choice0of-law rules of the forum state
• “As a general matter, ‘interpreting settlement agreements and their scope is a matter of state contract law.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).