OPINION OF THE COURT
GARTH, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to determine whether Rule 238 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure, which provides for prejudgment interest in tort cases, must be applied in a diversity action brought in a federal district court in Pennsylvania.
The district court held that Rule 238 was a "procedural" rule and that therefore prejudgment interest was not available in a federal court under the doctrine first...
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