Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.

Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued May 1–2, 1941
Decided June 2, 1941
Full case nameKlaxon Company v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Citations313 U.S. 487 (more)
61 S. Ct. 1020; 85 L. Ed. 1477; 1941 U.S. LEXIS 1298; 49 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 515
Court membership
Chief Justice
Charles E. Hughes
Associate Justices
Harlan F. Stone · Owen Roberts
Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed
Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas
Frank Murphy
Case opinion
MajorityReed, joined by unanimous

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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