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inlawrev-3336	Hodes, W. William	Congressional Federalism and the Judicial Power: Horizontal and Vertical Tension Merge	1998	8	.pdf	application/pdf	4716	225	62	[Vol. 32:155 For one thing, there was a federal statute in play, the Rules of Decision Act,29 which directed the federal courts to apply state law. Does Erie thus really mean to say that there are certain areas in which Congress can replace state law, but the federal courts cannot?	cache/inlawrev-3336.pdf	txt/inlawrev-3336.txt