Cooper v. Newell

Cooper v. Newell
Cooper v. Newell
	Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 3, 1899
Full case name	Cooper v. Newell
Citations	173 U.S. 555 (more)
Holding
	The final decision of a state court that claimed general jurisdiction may be collaterally attacked in federal court on the basis that the state court needed personal jurisdiction instead.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices John M. Harlan · Horace Gray; David J. Brewer · Henry B. Brown; George Shiras Jr. · Edward D. White; Rufus W. Peckham · Joseph McKenna
Case opinion
Majority	Fuller, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
	Judiciary Act of 1891

Cooper v. Newell, 173 U.S. 555 (1899), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the final decision of a state court that claimed general jurisdiction over a defendant may be collaterally attacked in federal court on the basis that the state court needed personal jurisdiction instead.^[1] Cooper upheld the constitutionality of the Judiciary Act of 1891 under the Full Faith and Credit Clause because that Congress may prescribe the general rules of how federal courts may recognize state court decisions.^[2]

References

^ Cooper v. Newell, 173 U.S. 555 (1899)
^ Lieberman, Jethro K. (1999). "Full Faith and Credit". A Practical Companion to the Constitution. p. 209.

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