Wolfgang v. Burrows

How courts have described this case

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• where state courts have not determined state law, federal court must make reasonable interpretation thereof
• \[T]he Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ... explicitly authorize litigants to present alternative and inconsistent pleadings.\
• “In light of the liberal pleading policy embodied in Rule 8(e)(2), ... a pleading should not be construed as an admission against another alternative or inconsistent pleading. ...”
• “[T]he Federal 23 Rules of Civil Procedure . . . explicitly authorize litigants to present alternative and inconsistent 24 pleadings.”
• “[T]he Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ... explicitly authorize litigants 8 to present alternative and inconsistent pleadings.”
• “The government may be held liable for claims brought pursuant to the FTCA only if a private person would, under similar circumstances, be liable pursuant to the law of the place where the act or omission occurred.”

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