Court Opinion

ID: 9426216
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:17:08.137612+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:59.618722
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Blackmun,
concurring.
Left to my own devices, I would deny the petition for certiorari. Inasmuch, however, as the Court chooses to emphasize and correct certain misapprehensions in the Court of Appeals’ opinion and to vacate that court’s judgment, I merely point out that, as I read the Court’s per curiam opinion, the Court of Appeals on remand is to determine and flatly to apply the conflict of laws rules that govern the state courts of Texas. This means to me that the Court of Appeals is not foreclosed from concluding, if it finds it proper so to do under the circumstances of this case, that the Texas state courts themselves would apply the Texas rule of strict liability. If that proves to be the result, I would perceive no violation of any principle of Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Mfg. Co., 313 U. S. 487 (1941). I make this observation to assure the Court of Appeals that, at least in my view, today’s per curiam opinion does not necessarily compel the determination that it is only the law of Cambodia that is applicable.