Court Opinion

ID: 9419777
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 22:51:27.028142+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:20.577673
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Rutledge,
concurring.
I agree with the result and with the opinion,'reserving however any intimation, explicit or implied, as to the full scope to which the doctrine of Guaranty Trust Co. v. York, 326 U. S. 99, may be applied in diversity cases. Many of the considerations now stated by the Court for refusing to extend that doctrine to cases concerning federally created rights, relating to the flexibility of remedies in equity either to cut down or to extend the state statutory period of limitations, seemed to me to be applicable whenever a federal court might be asked to extend the aid of its equity arm, whether in its diversity jurisdiction or other. The ruling in the York case however may be accepted generally for diversity cases and, moreover, rejected for extension to cases of this sort, without indicating that there may not be some cases even of diversity jurisdiction to which federal courts may not be required to apply it. With this reservation I join in the Court’s action.