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073629P.pdf 09/08/2008 Dana Wolfley v. Solectron USA
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 07-3629
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Joplin
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Melloy and Beam, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - torts. District court did not err in applying Missouri choice-
of-law rules to determine that North Carolina had the most significant
relations with the torts and that North Carolina law should apply to the
claims; district court correctly applied North Carolina law which holds
that a landowner does not breach a duty when the dangerous conditions
(here, ice and snow on a lot) were obvious. Judge Beam, dissenting on
the ground North Carolina law requires the issues to be submitted to a
jury.