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It may be tempting to dismiss as boilerplate the choice of
law discussion that precedes the standard of
review in a typical brief. But while choice of law may not
always be challenging or pivotal, just as often it is both.
Today s case,
Peterson v. C.R. Bard Incorporated, 2021
WL 799305 (D. Or. Mar. 2, 2021), is a good example.
In
Peterson, the plaintiff, then a resident of
Pennsylvania, received the defendant s IVC (inferior vena cava)
filter at a Pennsylvania hospital. He moved to Oregon, where he