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To: inquest
"Without doubt the constitutional requirement (article 4, § 1) that 'full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state,' implies that the public acts of every state shall be given the same effect by the courts of another state that they have by law and usage at home. This is clearly the logical result of the principles announced as early as 1813, in Mills v. Duryee, 7 Cranch, 481, and steadily adhered to ever since. " Chicago & Alton R.R. Co. v. Wiggins Ferry Co., 7 S.Ct. 398 (1887).

"As the Full Faith and Credit Clause requires Illinois to recognize the validity of records and judicial proceedings of sister states, the conclusion will not vary because the post-divorce recorded events underlying this litigation took place in other states than Illinois." "Petitioner and Henzel were married in Nevada. Thereafter petitioner brought her putative husband before the New York court. Petitioner and Henzel subjected themselves to the jurisdiction of the New York court and its decree annulling their Nevada marriage was entered with jurisdiction, so far as this record shows, of the parties and the subject matter." "The New York annulment determines the marriage relationship that is the marital status of petitioner and Henzel, just as any divorce judgment determines such relationship. If the Nevada court had had jurisdiction by personal service in the state or appearance in the case of Henzel and the first Mrs. Henzel, its decree of divorce would have been unassailable in other states. So as to the New York decree annulling the marriage, New York had such jurisdiction of the parties and its decree is entitled to full faith throughout the Nation, in Nevada as well as in Illinois." Sutton v. Leib, 72 S.Ct. 398 (1952)

174 posted on 06/28/2003 6:41:04 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker
And in either of these two rulings was there an actual state law that was being struck down or curtailed? The passages that you quoted didn't indicate that. (I'll ignore for now the fact that these weren't federal court rulings you quoted)
180 posted on 06/28/2003 7:04:28 PM PDT by inquest
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