Wash. Mut. Bank v. Superior Court of Orange Cty.

How courts have described this case

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• confirming that Nedlloyd should be applied to class claims subject to enforceable choice of law agreements
• stating that courts should consider “the relative commitment of the respective states to the laws involved” in conducting a comparative impairment analysis
• applying the Restatement approach to a choice of law provision contained in an adhesion contract
• setting 15 forth, as to cases in which no choice-of-law provision governs, requisite showing to be 16 made by proponent of foreign law
• rejecting an amici curiae’s argument that in a nationwide class action, the law of other states in which class members resided governed their claims unless the proponent of class certification affirmatively demonstrated that California law was more properly applied
• explaining the burden is on the party challenging the contractual choice-of-law provision

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).