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Sibbach v. Wilson and Co.

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End date
  
1941

Full case name
  
Sibbach v. Wilson & Company, Incorporated

Citations
  
312 U.S. 1 (more) 61 S. Ct. 422; 85 L. Ed. 479; 1941 U.S. LEXIS 1032

Prior history
  
Cert. to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Majority
  
Roberts, joined by Hughes, McReynolds, Stone, Reed

Dissent
  
Frankfurter, joined by Black, Douglas, Murphy

Ruling court
  
Supreme Court of the United States

Similar
  
Erie Railroad Co v To, Pennoyer v Neff, World‑Wide Volkswagen Corp v, International Shoe Co v Washington, Ashcroft v Iqbal

Sibbach v. Wilson & Co., 312 U.S. 1 (1941), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that under American law important and substantial procedures are not substantive, rather they are still considered procedural, and federal law applies.

This was a post-Erie decision, and thus the decision whether to apply the law of the state of jurisdiction or uniform federal rules depended on whether the rule in question was procedural or substantive in nature.

References

Sibbach v. Wilson & Co. Wikipedia