Add to ORKGPennoyer indeed is dead. The primitive ritual of service of process could not survive as a general solution to the problem of state power over individuals. Committed as we are to the idea that the judicial power should be exercised in a manner that is responsive to the common welfare, we could not suffer the limits of power to be determined irrationally by the random success of process servers. Offering only the virtues of simplicity and economy, the ritualistic method had to yield in order to make the judicial power a sharper and more effective tool with which to pursue our common goals. Although it is therefore desirable to put the ghost to rest, a word of caution seems to be timely
Scholars have lavished attention on the substance of jurisdictional doctrines such as standing, moot...
As a dedication to Walter V. Schaefer, a preeminent state courtjudge, this article is addressed to s...
On March 6th, 1917, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of McDonald v. Mabee, reve...
In a recent opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States Justice Holmes makes this interesting ...
Since Pennoyer v. Neff, holding that mere notice was an insufficient basis for in personam jurisdict...
As part of the attempt to understand modem doctrine, this article first reexamines Pennoyer v. Neff....
It is often assumed that courts can acquire jurisdiction only by personal service to give jurisdicti...
The arid conceptionalism of the power theory of state-court jurisdiction derived from Pennoyer v. Ne...
To believe that a defendant\u27s contacts with the forum state should be stronger under the due proc...
This Article examines whether the courts should shift their focus to a policy or interest analysis i...
Professor Perdue recounts the underlying story of the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s seminal personal juris...
In the antebellum nineteenth century, courts often voided legislative acts for substantive unreasona...
Personal jurisdiction doctrine is broken, but there is a moment of opportunity to repair it. The Sup...
It is doubtful whether American legal institutions have witnessed a more far-reaching procedural re...
More than a century ago, the then former Justice Curtis reminded the Bar that questions of jurisdic...
Scholars have lavished attention on the substance of jurisdictional doctrines such as standing, moot...
As a dedication to Walter V. Schaefer, a preeminent state courtjudge, this article is addressed to s...
On March 6th, 1917, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of McDonald v. Mabee, reve...
In a recent opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States Justice Holmes makes this interesting ...
Since Pennoyer v. Neff, holding that mere notice was an insufficient basis for in personam jurisdict...
As part of the attempt to understand modem doctrine, this article first reexamines Pennoyer v. Neff....
It is often assumed that courts can acquire jurisdiction only by personal service to give jurisdicti...
The arid conceptionalism of the power theory of state-court jurisdiction derived from Pennoyer v. Ne...
To believe that a defendant\u27s contacts with the forum state should be stronger under the due proc...
This Article examines whether the courts should shift their focus to a policy or interest analysis i...
Professor Perdue recounts the underlying story of the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s seminal personal juris...
In the antebellum nineteenth century, courts often voided legislative acts for substantive unreasona...
Personal jurisdiction doctrine is broken, but there is a moment of opportunity to repair it. The Sup...
It is doubtful whether American legal institutions have witnessed a more far-reaching procedural re...
More than a century ago, the then former Justice Curtis reminded the Bar that questions of jurisdic...
Scholars have lavished attention on the substance of jurisdictional doctrines such as standing, moot...
As a dedication to Walter V. Schaefer, a preeminent state courtjudge, this article is addressed to s...
On March 6th, 1917, the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of McDonald v. Mabee, reve...