Accident State Anchor Mislabel
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- Civil Procedure1
Example wrong choices
19537_christian_pilgrim_klaxon · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice AFederal common-law choice-of-law rules.
Why it's attractive
Klaxon explicitly rejected an independent federal diversity choice-of-law system.
Why it's wrong
Klaxon explicitly rejected an independent federal diversity choice-of-law system.
19537_christian_pilgrim_klaxon · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice BGeorgia choice-of-law rules because the defendant lives there.
Why it's attractive
Klaxon anchors on the forum state, not on the defendant's citizenship.
Why it's wrong
Klaxon anchors on the forum state, not on the defendant's citizenship.
19537_christian_pilgrim_klaxon · CIVIL_PROCEDURE · Choice DIndiana choice-of-law rules automatically because the accident happened there.
Why it's attractive
Klaxon anchors on the forum state, not on the place of injury; the accident state may be the substantive law under the forum's choice rules, but it is not the choice-of-law anchor.
Why it's wrong
Klaxon anchors on the forum state, not on the place of injury; the accident state may be the substantive law under the forum's choice rules, but it is not the choice-of-law anchor.
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