general federal common law

Hist. In the period before Erie v. Tompkins (304 U.S. 64, 58 S.Ct. 817 (1938)), the judge-made law developed by federal courts in deciding disputes in diversity-of-citizenship cases.

• Since Erie, a federal court has been bound to apply the substantive law of the state in which it sits. So even though there is a “federal common law,” there is no longer a general federal common law applicable to all disputes heard in federal court.

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