How have federal courts interpreted state law in federal cases?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Melendez v. City of New York, 20-4238-cv (2nd Cir. 2021):
(instructing that "decrees of lower state courts should be attributed some weight" in interpreting state law (internal quotation marks omitted)); Schoenefeld v. New York, 748 F.3d 464, 469 (2d Cir. 2014) (observing that absence of controlling authority from state's highest court does not afford federal court "license to disregard lower court rulings nor to analyze the question as though we were presented with a blank slate").
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