Add to ORKGRecognizing a conflict between the goals of uniform federal procedure and of uniform outcome in state and federal forums, the Supreme Court in <em>Hanna v. Plumer</em> removed the Federal Rules from the purview of the <em>Erie</em> doctrine and announced a separate standard more solicitous of federal procedural uniformity. The <em>Hanna</em> Court, however, confounded lower courts and legal scholars by failing to overrule <em>Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & Warehouse Co.</em>, decided under the <em>Erie</em> doctrine and in apparent conflict with the Court\u27s new perspective on the Federal Rules. Legal commentators debated <em>Ragan\u27s</em> continued vitality, lo...
Article III’s diversity jurisdiction provisions extend the federal judicial power to state law contr...
The headline holding of the Supreme Court’s opinion in Atlantic Marine is its conclusion that a foru...
This Article examines the Court’s decision in Shady Grove, concluding that Justice Scalia’s pluralit...
Recognizing a conflict between the goals of uniform federal procedure and of uniform outcome in stat...
Approximately twelve years have passed since the Supreme Court of the United States promulgated the ...
As when Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins was decided seventy years ago, federal courts today are seen a...
(Excerpt) Part I of this Article briefly summarizes the relevant history of the Erie doctrine, inclu...
This Article is essentially an elaboration of these three themes. Section I sets forth the fundament...
This Article seeks to mitigate decades of confusion about the Erie doctrine’s purposes, justificatio...
This Article seeks to mitigate decades of confusion about the Erie doctrine’s purposes, justificatio...
The doctrine for deciding when to apply the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to state claims heard i...
The Supreme Court regularly faces Erie issues involving the displacement of state law by a Federal R...
article published in law reviewOne little-noticed side effect of the litigation explosion in this co...
The Court has used radically different techniques when it evaluates the scope of particular rules. W...
This Article argues that the Erie doctrine should be normalized by bringing it into line with ordina...
Article III’s diversity jurisdiction provisions extend the federal judicial power to state law contr...
The headline holding of the Supreme Court’s opinion in Atlantic Marine is its conclusion that a foru...
This Article examines the Court’s decision in Shady Grove, concluding that Justice Scalia’s pluralit...
Recognizing a conflict between the goals of uniform federal procedure and of uniform outcome in stat...
Approximately twelve years have passed since the Supreme Court of the United States promulgated the ...
As when Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins was decided seventy years ago, federal courts today are seen a...
(Excerpt) Part I of this Article briefly summarizes the relevant history of the Erie doctrine, inclu...
This Article is essentially an elaboration of these three themes. Section I sets forth the fundament...
This Article seeks to mitigate decades of confusion about the Erie doctrine’s purposes, justificatio...
This Article seeks to mitigate decades of confusion about the Erie doctrine’s purposes, justificatio...
The doctrine for deciding when to apply the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to state claims heard i...
The Supreme Court regularly faces Erie issues involving the displacement of state law by a Federal R...
article published in law reviewOne little-noticed side effect of the litigation explosion in this co...
The Court has used radically different techniques when it evaluates the scope of particular rules. W...
This Article argues that the Erie doctrine should be normalized by bringing it into line with ordina...
Article III’s diversity jurisdiction provisions extend the federal judicial power to state law contr...
The headline holding of the Supreme Court’s opinion in Atlantic Marine is its conclusion that a foru...
This Article examines the Court’s decision in Shady Grove, concluding that Justice Scalia’s pluralit...