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The court then discuss the outcome determinative test discussed first Guaranty
Trust Co. v. York. The court says that if reaching the same outcome were the only
consideration then the federal court would have to follow state practice. However,
in this case, following the state practice would disrupt the federal system of
allocating functions between judges and juries. The state law should not be
allowed to interfere with this judge-jury relationship especially considering the
Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Thus the court found that the possibility of a different outcome was less
important than preserving the judge-jury function allocations in the federal
system.
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