United States Third Circuit

Questions are certified to the Indiana Supreme Court: 1) whether a true conflict exists between Indiana's and D.C.'s choice-of-law rules; and 2) if there is a true conflict, how to resolve a split among the Hubbard factors in choosing a jurisdiction's substantive law when one factor points toward Indiana, another toward Pennsylvania, and the third is indeterminate.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/23/2003
• Decided 08/20/2003
• Published 08/20/2003

Judges

• Before SLOVITER, AMBRO, and BECKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Arthur G. Raynes,Stephen E. Raynes, Raynes, McCarty, Binder, Ross & Mundy, Philadelphia, PA, Aaron S. Podhurst, Joel S. Perwin (Argued), Michael Olin, Podhurst, Orseck, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow, Olin & Perwin, P.A., Miami, FL, for Appellants Louis Simon, Howard Asher, Henry F. Miller, and Suzanne Peterson, Executors of the Estate of B. Kenin Hart, Deceased in 02-2945., Harry A. Wilson, Jr. (Argued), D. Bruce Kehoe, Wilson Kehoe and Winingham, Indianapolis, IN, Daniel S. Weinstock, Feidman ShepherdWohlgelernter Tanner, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellant Mary Schalliol in 02-3996.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Patrick L. Meehan, United States Attorney, Terence M. Healy, Victor M. Lawrence, Rodney Patton (Argued), Trial Attorneys, Torts Branch, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellee United States., J. Arthur Mozley (Argued), Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Appellee Hart Corporation/Delaware Division in 02-3996 & 02-3997., Joseph M. Lamonaca, Chadds Ford, PA, for John Fare, Jr., Appellee in 02-3996 & Appellant in 02-3997.