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In Joseph Story
In Swift v. Tyson, 16 Peters 1 (1842; overruled 1938), he, in effect, created a “federal common law” for commercial cases by holding that federal trial courts, taking jurisdiction when the parties were citizens of different states, need not follow decisions by the courts of the…
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