IN RE STERBA

No. 14-60061.

852 F.3d 1175 (2017)

IN RE Richard STERBA; Olga Sterba, Debtors, PNC Bank, Appellant, v. Richard Sterba and Olga Sterba, Appellees. Linda S. Green, Chapter 7 Trustee, Real-party-in-interest.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 5, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas B. Provencher and Janis H. Grattan , Provencher & Flatt LLP, Santa Rosa, California, for Appellant.

Thomas P. Kelly III , Santa Rosa, California, for Appellees.

Concurrence by Judge Tashima.


OPINION

When it comes to conflicts of law, bankruptcy is a bit of an odd duck. The substantive focus is often on state law, as it always is in diversity cases. But where a federal court sitting in diversity applies the forum state's choice-of-law rules — a straightforward policy that prevents the forum's...

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