Legal Dictionary
Main Entry:
Erie doctrinePronunciation:
'ir-E-Function:
nounEtymology: from the Supreme Court case
Erie Railroad Company v. Tompkins, which resulted in definition of the doctrine
: a doctrine that a federal court exercising diversity jurisdiction over a case for which no federal law is relevant must apply the law of the state in which it is sitting called also
Erie Rule —see also
Erie Railroad Company v. Tompkins in the
IMPORTANT CASES section
