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Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins

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Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the United States does not have a general federal common law and that U.S. federal courts must apply state law, not federal law, to any lawsuit between parties from different states that does not involve federal questions. The Court's decision overturned nearly a century of case law on federal civil procedure and established the foundation of the modern law of diversity jurisdiction. Although Erie is not widely known among non-experts, most American legal scholars and lawyers regard it as one of the most important decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history. The decision "goes to the heart" of the American system of federalism and the relationship between the U.S. federal government and the states.

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