Sibbach v. Wilson

SCOTUSCase
Litigants=Sibbach v. Wilson
ArgueDate=December 17
ArgueYear=1940
DecideDate=January 13
DecideYear=1941
FullName=Sibbach v. Wilson & Company, Incorporated
USVol=312
USPage=1
Citation=61 S. Ct. 422; 85 L. Ed. 479; 1941 U.S. LEXIS 1032
Prior=Cert. to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Holding=In a diverse jurisdiction case, important and substantial procedures are considered "Procedural" not "Substantive" and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure apply.
SCOTUS=1940-1941
Majority=Roberts
JoinMajority=Hughes, McReynolds, Stone, Reed
Dissent=Frankfurter
JoinDissent=Black, Douglas, Murphy
LawsApplied=

"Sibbach v. Wilson", 312 U.S. 1 (1941), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court in which the court held that important and substantial procedures are not substantive, rather they are still considered procedural, and federal law applies.

This was a post-Erie ("Erie Railroad v. Tompkins", 304 U.S. 64 (1938)) decision, and thus the decision whether to apply the law of the state of jurisdiction or uniform federal rules depended on whether the rule in question was procedural or substantive in nature.

ee also

*List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 312