ARNO v. CLUB MED BOUTIQUE INC.

No. 96-16435.

134 F.3d 1424 (1998)

Carolyn ARNO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CLUB MED BOUTIQUE INC.; Club Med Inc.; Club Med Sales Inc.; Club Mediterranee S.A.; Club Med Management Services Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided January 29, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Sturdevant, Kim E. Card, The Sturdevant Law Firm, San Francisco, CA, Barbara A. Lawless, Therese M. Lawless, Lawless, Horowitz & Lawless, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Bettina B. Plevan, Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, New York, NY, Robert B. Mison, Steefel, Levitt & Weiss, San Francisco, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: SCHROEDER, BEEZER and BRUNETTI, Circuit Judges.


SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal raises an unusual conflict of law issue. Appellant Carolyn Arno's supervisor sexually assaulted her while she was working at a Club Med resort in Guadeloupe, which is governed by French law. In Arno's first appeal, we decided that French law, as the law of the place where the tort occurred, rather than the law of California, the forum state and residence of the plaintiff, governed the...

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