Court Opinion

ID: 9637793
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:20:48.937111+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:00.622982
License: Public Domain

GOODRICH, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
This paragraph is added just to make my position clear with regard to the power of the Federal Court in New Jersey to take judicial notice of the law of Pennsylvania. I think, regardless of the local statute, federal courts may take judicial notice of the laws of the states of the United States. This was discussed in Gallup v. Caldwell, 3 Cir., 1941, 120 F.2d 90, and that discussion need not be repeated here.
It should be noted, also, that there may well be cases where a federal court will not be obliged, or perhaps even permitted, to take the state court’s view on the question of the division between matters of substance and procedure. That question does not arise here for both New Jersey and federal decisions consider the burden of proof with regard to contributory negligence a substantive matter.
Judge DOBIE, who also concurs in the opinion of the Court, desires to join in this concurrence.