stating "[a]s a general matter, FELA cases adjudicated in state courts are subject to state procedural rules, but the substantive law governing them is federal"
How later courts described this case
- stating "[a]s a general matter, FELA cases adjudicated in state courts are subject to state procedural rules, but the substantive law governing them is federal"
- holding that state procedural law applied in state-court litigation of a federal-law claim
- stating that state procedural rules and federal substantive rules apply in FELA cases
- jury instruction on FELA damages is substantive and so determined by federal law
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
*413 Justice Marshall,
dissenting.
I continue to object to deciding cases without granting to either party an opportunity to argue the merits by either brief or oral argument. I therefore dissent.