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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
CLAY L. SHAW
:
CIVIL ACTION
versus
:
NO. 70-466
JIM GARRISON, ET AL
:
SECTION "B"
MEMORANDUM IN BEHALF OF DEFENDANTS
RAULT AND ROBERTSON ON STATE LAW OF
SURVIVORSHIP AND FEDERAL COMMON LAW
May It Please The Court:
This Court has determined in its minute entry of December 3, 1974, that
the captioned "pending action would abate under Louisiana law", and that this
"result appears to be required because no representative of the three classes of
beneficiaries designated under Art. 2315 has survived".
The Court has expressed some question, however, whether it is bound by
Louisiana law, or "whether this Court can, and should, apply a federal cammon
law of survival of civil rights actions, notwithstanding the lack of survival
under state law".
First, it should be emphasized that, under the law of Louisiana, there
is no "lack of survival" of personal-injury actions such as the instant one. To
the contrary, the Louisiana Code - like the statutes of almost all states --
expressly provides for the survival of such actions. However, the law of Lou-
isiana - again like the law of almost every other state of the Union -- recog-
nizes that the right to pursue such an action, the right to recover for the per-
sonal injuries sustained by the deceased, should be limited to certain specific,
designated beneficiaries having a kinship or marital relationship to the de-
ceased.
In response to the specific question of the Court, it is submitted that
it neither can, nor should, apply "a federal common law of survival" in this
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