state-substantive-law

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-8587 Reginald Young v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied IFP affidavit-of-merit circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure medical-negligence preemption shady-grove state-law state-substantive-law summary-judgment Whether a state law 'affidavit of merit' requirement applies in a federal court medical-negligence case governed by state substantive law
18-175 Applied Underwriters, Inc., et al. v. Citizens of Humanity, LLC, et al. California 2018-08-08 Denied arbitrability arbitration-act arbitration-agreement choice-of-law contract-interpretation delegation-clause federal-arbitration-act judicial-hostility preemption rent-a-center-v-jackson state-arbitration-principles state-substantive-law Whether a litigant can avoid enforcement of a cont Whether a general choice-of-law clause in a contract that contains an arbitration agreement should be read to import state substantive law without imp…