Subject only to the limitations prescribed by the Federal Constitution, a state legislature has the power to determine the extent to which courts of the state may exercise personal jurisdiction over absent defendants. The common law recognized only two bases of jurisdiction -presence within the state and actual consent. The additional bases approved in this century by the Supreme Court may be utilized by state courts only to the extent that state statutes permit. Hence, the states have enacted various types of long-arm statutes, all of which are designed to extend the in personam jurisdiction of state courts proportionately with the post-Pennoyer liberalization of federal due process requirements. The early long-arm statutes were necessaril...
Civil Procedure--Service of Process--California Long-Arm Statutes Abrogate State\u27s Immunity Doctr...
Commentators have routinely noted the complexity, opacity, and multiple functions of U.S. personal j...
During the past decade and a half considerable change has occurred on a national basis in the areas ...
Subject only to the limitations prescribed by the Federal Constitution, a state legislature has the ...
A precondition to a court’s exercising any measure of authority over an individual or an entity is t...
This Comment examines California\u27s approach to long-arm jurisdiction in familial support suits. T...
In 1957 the West Virginia legislature enacted a statute which provides that in certain instances for...
Technological and economic progess have continually fostered the development of international trade....
All states have long-arm statutes permitting the exercise of jurisdiction over non-resident defendan...
The ability of a California court to assert jurisdiction over business enterprises currently depends...
The Cornelison court, following the bold and liberal traditions of the California Supreme Court, rej...
One of the more important recent developments in California procedural law is the enactment of an en...
In first-year civil procedure, students spend a great deal of time parsing an “answer” to a deceptiv...
To what extent may a state court, or a federal court exercising diversity jurisdiction, assert in pe...
This Comment is focused upon the errors that may result from the confusion surrounding the question ...
Civil Procedure--Service of Process--California Long-Arm Statutes Abrogate State\u27s Immunity Doctr...
Commentators have routinely noted the complexity, opacity, and multiple functions of U.S. personal j...
During the past decade and a half considerable change has occurred on a national basis in the areas ...
Subject only to the limitations prescribed by the Federal Constitution, a state legislature has the ...
A precondition to a court’s exercising any measure of authority over an individual or an entity is t...
This Comment examines California\u27s approach to long-arm jurisdiction in familial support suits. T...
In 1957 the West Virginia legislature enacted a statute which provides that in certain instances for...
Technological and economic progess have continually fostered the development of international trade....
All states have long-arm statutes permitting the exercise of jurisdiction over non-resident defendan...
The ability of a California court to assert jurisdiction over business enterprises currently depends...
The Cornelison court, following the bold and liberal traditions of the California Supreme Court, rej...
One of the more important recent developments in California procedural law is the enactment of an en...
In first-year civil procedure, students spend a great deal of time parsing an “answer” to a deceptiv...
To what extent may a state court, or a federal court exercising diversity jurisdiction, assert in pe...
This Comment is focused upon the errors that may result from the confusion surrounding the question ...
Civil Procedure--Service of Process--California Long-Arm Statutes Abrogate State\u27s Immunity Doctr...
Commentators have routinely noted the complexity, opacity, and multiple functions of U.S. personal j...
During the past decade and a half considerable change has occurred on a national basis in the areas ...