Court Opinion

ID: 9460470
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:51:05.296831+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:37.752297
License: Public Domain

WRIGHT, Circuit Judge
(concurring specially):
I concur in the result, but not for the reasons stated in the district court’s opinion. I believe that California’s new interest balancing approach to conflict of laws problems, announced in Reich v. Purcell, 67 Cal.2d 551, 63 Cal.Rptr. 31, 432 P.2d 727 (Cal.1967), was intended to be applicable alike to substantive and procedural choice of law problems. This conclusion is not based on a prediction that California will change its law to this effect but rather on a belief that the reasoning in Reich dictates it. I also believe that such a conclusion is dictated in this Circuit by Horton v. Jessie, 423 F.2d 722 (9th Cir. 1970).
Applying an interest balancing approach to the particular facts of this case, I conclude that California would apply its own statute of limitations and dismiss the action.