In reviewing a diversity case, does the 9th Circuit overrule a district judge on the question of state law?

In reviewing a diversity case, we do "not overrule a district judge on the question of state law unless the judge's findings are 'clearly wrong'." Gee v. Tenneco, Inc., 615 F.2d 857, 861 (9th Cir. 1980). "While this circuit does not regard the district judge's presumed expertise in the law of his or her own state to be infallible," we nonetheless regard "the standard of review on this issue as one which does restrict ... scrutiny of the district judge's determination." Id.

We may regard a finding of fact as clearly erroneous not only if it is without

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