Does a federal court have an obligation to consider all relevant factors in determining state law?
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The following excerpt is from Strubbe v. Sonnenschein, 299 F.2d 185 (2nd Cir. 1962):
Although the earlier decisions, particularly Field, may have inclined toward a mechanical approach in determining state law, it appears today that a federal court is bound to consider all relevant factors. Bernhardt v. Polygraphic Company of America, 350 U.S. 198, 205, 76 S.Ct. 273, 100 L.Ed. 199 (1956). For, so "long as there is diversity jurisdiction, `estimates' are necessarily often all that
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federal courts can make in ascertaining what the state court would rule to be its law." Ibid., at 209, 76 S.Ct. at 279 (Frankfurter, J. concurring).[299 F.2d 189]
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