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Chapter 33 - Erie’s Legacy

from Section C: Justiciability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2022

Mark V. Tushnet
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
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Summary

While Erie limited federal judicial power along one dimenions, it left many questions unresolved: How far did its rule extend? Were there still some special subjects about which the federal courts could develop a federal common law? What procedural rules governed the federal courts? Should the federal courts follow the choice-of-law rules in their states or develop an independent body of federal choice-of-law rules?The Court dealt with several of these questions in the years immediately after Erie. And it had to begin to interpret the reach of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a code aimed at simplifying the rules regulating how litigation in the federal courts should proceed, adopted in 1937. In Sibbach v. Wilson the Court relied on a distinction between rules regulting procedure and those dealing with substance, and controversially held that an order directing that a litigant undergo a physical examination dealt with procedure rather than substance. It generally rejected constitutional challenges to state choice-of-law rules, and then held that Erie required the federal courts to follow the choice-of-law rules of the states in which they sat.

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The Hughes Court
From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941
, pp. 875 - 914
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Erie’s Legacy
  • Mark V. Tushnet, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
  • Book: The Hughes Court
  • Online publication: 13 January 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009031141.035
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  • Mark V. Tushnet, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
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  • Erie’s Legacy
  • Mark V. Tushnet, Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
  • Book: The Hughes Court
  • Online publication: 13 January 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009031141.035
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