According to the Supreme Court in Erie Railroad Co v. Tompkins, where Tompkins sued a New York company that owned a train that hit him in Pennsylvania, the doctrine of Swift v. Tyson, which held that federal courts exercising jurisdiction on the ground of diversity of citizenship need not, in matters of general jurisprudence, apply [the common law] of the state as declared by its highest court,
introduced:
a. discrimination against state citizens by non-state citizens b. discrimination against non-state citizens by state citizens c. a substantial party problem
d. a stare decisis problem
e. an ultimate jurisdiction problem
a
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