End date June 2, 1941 | ||
Full case name Klaxon Company v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Company, Inc. Citations 313 U.S. 487 (more)61 S. Ct. 1020; 85 L. Ed. 1477; 1941 U.S. LEXIS 1298; 49 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 515 Majority Reed, joined by unanimous Similar Erie Railroad Co v To, Pennoyer v Neff, World‑Wide Volkswagen Corp v, International Shoe Co v Washington, Ashcroft v Iqbal | ||
Klaxon Company v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Company, 313 U.S. 487 (1941), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court applied the choice-of-law principles of Erie Railroad v. Tompkins to conflicts between laws of different states for cases sitting in federal court on diversity jurisdiction. The court held that a federal court sitting in diversity must apply the choice-of-law doctrine of the forum state to choose between the forum state's law and the other state's law (as distinguished from the federal choice-of-law doctrines which had been used before Erie).
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