faith and credit clause in Massachusetts

1974See Restatement: Judgments, § 45 (1942). 6 The *689 effects of the res judicata doctrine extend to judgments rendered in other States through the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution, which requires that “the judgment of a State court which had jurisdiction of the parties and the subject-matter in suit, shall be given in the courts of every other State the same credit, validity and effect which it has in the State where it was rendered, and be equally conclusive upon the merits . . ..” Roche v. McDonald, 275 U. S. 449,451-452 (1928).

1928The principles by which the courts of this Commonwealth must be governed in determining the force and weight to be given to judgments of the courts of other States of the union, when proceedings are brought to enforce them in this jurisdiction, under the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution of the United States, art. 4, § 1, have been stated with ample citation of supporting authorities in Roche v. McDonald, 275 U. S. 449, 451 , in these words: “It is settled by repeated decisions of this Court that the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution requires that the judgment of

2024IV, § 1, requires Massachusetts courts to recognize a final judgment obtained in another State as long as the judgment-rendering State possessed personal jurisdiction over the parties and jurisdiction over the subject matter of the action in which the judgment was rendered." Bishins v. Mateer, 61 Mass. App. Ct. 423, 428 (2004).

2014See Bishins, 61 Mass.App.Ct. at 428 ; Claridge , 5 Mass. L.

1992Teare v. Committee on Admissions, 566 A.2d 23, 28 (D.C. 1989), citing Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Hunt, 320 U.S. 430, 436-437 (1943).

1956Relying on Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Hunt, 320 U. S. 430 , the insurer earnestly argues that the Rhode Island award precludes recovery here.

1986Sutton v. Leib, 342 U.S. 402, 406-409 (1952) (the decree of a New York court annulling a Nevada marriage held to be entitled to full faith and credit in Illinois).

1961Sutton v. Leib, 342 U. S. 402 .

1974Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Co. 308 U. S. 66, 77-78 (1939).

1949Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Co. 308 U. S. 66 .

2019Co . v. Industrial Acc. Comm'n of Cal ., 306 U.S. 493 , 502, 59 S.Ct. 629 , 83 L.Ed. 940 (1939) ("the conclusion is unavoidable that the full faith and credit clause does not require one state to substitute for its own statute, applicable to persons and events within it, the conflicting statute of another state").

2019Co . v. Industrial Acc. Comm'n of Cal ., 306 U.S. 493 , 502, 59 S.Ct. 629 , 83 L.Ed. 940 (1939) ("the conclusion is unavoidable that the full faith and credit clause does not require one state to substitute for its own statute, applicable to persons and events within it, the conflicting statute of another state").

2018Compare, e.g., Adar v. Smith , 639 F.3d 146 , 151-157 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 565 U.S. 942 (2011), with Finstuen v. Crutcher , 496 F.3d 1139 , 1156 (10th Cir. 2007), and Rosin v. Monken , 599 F.3d 574 , 576-577 (5th Cir. 2010).

2018Compare, e.g., Adar v. Smith , 639 F.3d 146 , 151-157 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 565 U.S. 942 (2011), with Finstuen v. Crutcher , 496 F.3d 1139 , 1156 (10th Cir. 2007), and Rosin v. Monken , 599 F.3d 574 , 576-577 (5th Cir. 2010).

2018Compare, e.g., Adar v. Smith , 639 F.3d 146 , 151-157 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 565 U.S. 942 (2011), with Finstuen v. Crutcher , 496 F.3d 1139 , 1156 (10th Cir. 2007), and Rosin v. Monken , 599 F.3d 574 , 576-577 (5th Cir. 2010).

2018Compare, e.g., Adar v. Smith , 639 F.3d 146 , 151-157 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 565 U.S. 942 (2011), with Finstuen v. Crutcher , 496 F.3d 1139 , 1156 (10th Cir. 2007), and Rosin v. Monken , 599 F.3d 574 , 576-577 (5th Cir. 2010).

2009See Schiereck v. Schiereck, 14 Mass. App. Ct. 378, 380 (1982), citing Hilton v. Guyot, 159 U.S. 113, 163-164 (1895).

2009See Slessinger v. Secretary of Health & Human Serv., 835 F.2d 937 , 940-941 n. 1 (1st Cir. 1987).

2009See Schiereck v. Schiereck, 14 Mass. App. Ct. 378, 380 (1982), citing Hilton v. Guyot, 159 U.S. 113, 163-164 (1895).

1998See Cavanagh, supra. 2.

1997Trust, Inc., supra at 507, quoting Wright Mach.

1997“Once it appears, as it does here without dispute, that a court has jurisdiction over the person and subject matter . . . the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution precludes any inquiry into the merits of the cause of action, the logic or consistency of the decision, or the validity of the legal principles on which the judgment is based." Id. at 691 .

1997Corp., 364 Mass. at 688-89 (“the effects of the res judicata doctrine extend to judgments rendered in other states through the full faith and credit clause”).

1996Although Doucette correctly notes that guardianship decisions have occasionally been denied full faith and credit in some jurisdictions, see for example Mack v. Mack, 618 A.2d 744, 749-751 (Md. 1993) (discussing the scope of the full faith and credit clause and concluding that a Florida guardianship order was not entitled to full faith and credit) and cases cited therein, historically, Massachusetts courts have declined to give another jurisdiction’s valid guardianship order full faith and credit only when the best interest of the ward required otherwise.

1996See also McDade v. Moynihan, 330 Mass. 437, 442 (1953) (full faith and credit clause required court to enforce Pennsylvania judgment based on a confession of judgment even though Massachusetts law declared such provisions for confession of judgment void).

1992Teare v. Committee on Admissions, 566 A.2d 23, 28 (D.C. 1989), citing Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Hunt, 320 U.S. 430, 436-437 (1943).

1974Whatever mistakes of law may underlie the judgment ... it is ‘conclusive as to all the media concludendi. ’ Fauntleroy v. Lum . . . [ 210 U. S. 230 (1908)], at p. 237.” Milliken v. Meyer, 311 U. S. 457, 462 (1940).