Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.

Klaxon Company v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Company, 313 U.S. 487 (1941), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court applied the choice-of-law principles of Erie Railroad v. Tompkins to conflicts between laws of different states for cases sitting in federal court on diversity jurisdiction. The court held that a federal court sitting in diversity must apply the choice-of-law doctrine of the forum state to choose between the forum state's law and the other state's law (as distinguished from the federal choice-of-law doctrines which had been used before Erie).

Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued May 1–2, 1941 Decided June 2, 1941
Full case name	Klaxon Company v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Citations	313 U.S. 487 (more) 61 S. Ct. 1020; 85 L. Ed. 1477; 1941 U.S. LEXIS 1298; 49 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 515
Court membership
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes Associate Justices Harlan F. Stone · Owen Roberts Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Frank Murphy
Case opinion
Majority	Reed, joined by unanimous

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 313

External links

• Text of Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co., 313 U.S. 487 (1941) is available from: Justia Library of Congress