Virginia MODAVE, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER and
The County of Nassau (Meadowbrook Hospital), Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued May 31, 1974.
Decided June 27, 1974.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Bernard S. Meyer, New York City (Fink, Weinberger, Levin & Charney and Stephen P. Seligman, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.
Benjamin H. Siff, New York City (Bower & Gardner, Siff & Newman, Thomas R. Newman, and Richard W. Derry, New York City, of counsel), for N. Y., of counsel), for defendant-appellee County of Nassau (Meadowbrook defendant-appellee Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
ty Atty., of Nassau County, and Edward F. Asip, Deputy County Atty., Mineola,
Natale C. Tedone, Senior Deputy County Atty. (Joseph Jaspan, Coun-Hospital).
Jesse J. Fine, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., of the State of N. Y., and Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), amicus curiae.
Before MOORE, FRIENDLY and MANSFIELD, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:
In this case we are forced to decide questions of New York law on which, as Judge J. Skelly Wright has said with elegant understatement, "state law on the point at issue is less than immaculately clear."1 We must do this because plaintiff, a former American Airlines stewardess living on Long Island, alleged that at the time the suit was filed she was a citizen and resident of Florida, and the defendants Long Island...
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