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Full Faith and Credit
Article IV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, commonly known as the Full Faith and Credit Clause, addresses the duties that states within the United States have to respect the "public acts, records, and judicial rulings" of other states. According to the Supreme Court, there is a difference between the credit owed to laws (i.e. legislative measures and common law) as compared to the credit owed to judgments.[1] Judgments are generally entitled to greater respect than laws, in other states.[2] At present, it is widely agreed that this Clause of the Constitution has little impact on a court's choice of law decision,[3] although this Clause of the Constitution was once interpreted differently.[4]
New York has full faith and credit
In a very, very interesting move, N.Y. Governor David Paterson has directed state agencies to revise their regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions...
Engdahl on Full Faith and Credit
David E. Engdahl (Seattle University School of Law) has posted The Classic Rule of "Full Faith and Credit" (Yale Law Journal, Vol...
Sachs on Full Faith and Credit in the Early Republic
Full Faith and Credit in the Early Congress is a new article by Stephen E. Sachs. It is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review...
Joslin on Full Faith & Credit & Interestate Recognition of Parentage
Courtney G. Joslin (UC Davis School of Law) has posted Interstate Recognition of Parentage in a Time of Disharmony: Same-Sex Parent Families and Beyond (Ohio State Law Journal, Vol...
The Effect of the Full Faith and Credit Clause - Exception to the Defense of Marriage Act
The article written by Joanna Grossman entitled: “Dissolving Unhappy Vermont Civil Unions: It’s Harder Than It Look,” is important to gay couples joined under the New Jersey Civil Union Act as they will face the same challenges as those in Vermont in legally dissolving their relationships...
Chancery Applies Collateral Estoppel; Issue Preclusion; Comity as well as Full Faith and Credit
The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation v. Carvel, 2008 Del. Ch. LEXIS 142 (Sept. 30, 2008), read opinion here. This Chancery Court decision has a factual background that spans 20 years and includes related litigation in other states and other countries...
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My fiance's check is DD into a local credit union. Bank seems to have a pattern of "invisibly holding" charges from the debit card until just HOURS before his DD is processed (and this is after hours, of course). Over th
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My father died and left my mother $200,000 (life insurance) My Mother died 2 years later leaving my sister and I with both about $75,000 each. (including house/vehicles/belongings which I never got). We were supposed to
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