Full Faith and Credit Clause

• Out-of-State Civil Unions in Iowa After Varnum v. Brien: Why the State of Iowa Should Recognize Civil Unions as Marriages

One of the issues that arose after the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision in Varnum v. Brien, which held that Iowa’s Constitution would not permit Iowa to limit the institution of marriage to opposite-sex couples, regards how the state should treat different types of same-sex unions from other states. Some of the most interesting and important concerns center around the status Iowa will give to out-of-state civil unions and domestic partnerships, relationships that receive legal recognition but are not true marriages in their states of origin. Since federal law (the Full Faith and Credit Clause and the Federal Defense of Marriage Act) and choice-of-law principles allow Iowa to recognize out-of-state, same-sex relationships, Iowa courts and legislators must now look to statutory l...

• Iowa Law Review
• Nbr. 96-1, November 2010

• The meaning of 'general laws': the extent of Congress's power under the Full Faith and Credit Clause and the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.

Section 2 of the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 (DOMA) should be ruled unconstitutional because it oversteps the power granted to Congress under the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution. DOMA section 2 allows individual states to refuse recognition to same-sex marriages regarded as valid in another state. This provision represents the first case in which Congress has attempted to restrict full faith and credit.

• University of Pennsylvania Law Review
• Vol. 145 Nbr. 6, June 1997

• Full Faith Credit Clause and Tawana Brawley

[Steven Pagones]' defamation complaint never alleged that [Tawana Brawley] had made a single statement of any kind against him. In fact, New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams had always maintained that Tawana had refused to make any public pronouncements. Abrams: "Why doesn't Tawana talk? History is repeating itself. Although the FBI and the Dutchess County district attorney's office painted Pagones as a suspect, the special prosecutor, Robert Abrams, ended up shielding Pagones and prosecuting Brawley's advisors. New York allowed Pagones to wrongfully sue Tawana. See: www.reinstatealtonmaddox.net for "Black Hero Murdered in Prison," "Shange Summoned to Court," "America: Love it or Leave it," "[Alton Maddox] on Blacks, Latinos, Asians and Indians," "Hasan to be Crucified." Steve...

• New York Amsterdam News
• August 25, 2009

• Full Faith and Credit Clause

The Full Faith and Credit Clause?Article IV, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution?provides that the various states must recognize legi...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Fri–Jam

• Derico v. Schimoler, (Ohio 2011)

Foreign judgment; Full Faith and Credit clause; fraud upon the court

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Domestic Violence Across State Lines: The Full Faith and Credit Clause, Congressional Power, and Interstate Enforcement of Protection Orders

Sack explains the nature of domestic violence protection orders in both Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and VAWA 2000, in order to understand how the implementation of full faith and credit impacts their interstate enforcement. He claims that states must come into compliance with both the Constitution's and VAWA's full faith and credit requirements; until then, victims of domestic violence will continue to be denied the full protection to which they are entitled by domestic violence protection orders.

• Northwestern University Law Review
• Vol. 98 Nbr. 3, April 2004

• Adoptions by Lesbian and Gay Parents Must be Recognized by Sister States Under the Full Faith and Credit Clause Despite

Introduction. II. Interstate Recognition of Marriages by Same-Sex Couples. III. Interstate Recognition of Adoptions by Gay or Lesbian Parents. A. Williams I, Williams II, and Interstate Recognition of Judgments. B. The Defense of Marriage Act Should Not Be Interpreted to Weaken the Constitutional Demands of Williams I Concerning Adoption Decrees by Lesbian and Gay Parents, and Williams II Holds Little Promise For Collaterally Attacking Those Decrees. IV. States that Have Considered Whether to Give Interstate Recognition to Adoptions by Gay or Lesbian Parents Have Recognized the Adoptions. A. Starr v. Erez. B. Mississippi Statute Not Passed. C. Serenna D. Russell v. Joan C. Bridgens. V. Conclusion.

• Capital University Law Review
• Nbr. 31-4, August 2003

• Non-Economic Individual Rights

§ 23.1 Civil Rights Protections: The Second, Third & Seventh Amendments & The Full Faith and Credit Clause of Article IV, § 1. § 23.1.1 The Second Amendment: Right to Bear Arms. § 23.1.2 The Third Amendment: Protection Against Quartering of Soldiers In Individuals' Homes. § 23.1.3 The Seventh Amendment: Right to Jury Trial in Actions At Common Law. § 23.1.4 The Full Faith and Credit Clause. § 23.2 Criminal Defendants' Rights. § 23.2.1 The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments. § 23.2.1.1 The Fourth Amendment: Protection Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures. § 23.2.1.2 The Fifth Amendment: Grand Jury Indictment, Double Jeopardy, Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, and Due Process of Law. A. Requirement of Grand Jury Indictment. B. Protection Against Double Jeopardy. C. Priv...

• The Path of Constitutional Law

• Hudson v. Am. Chambers Life Ins. Co., (Ohio 2011)

Provision in R.C. 3903.36(D) allowing the liquidator to decline to recognize the full value of a judgment obtained from an out-of-state court under some circumstances does not violate the full faith and credit clause of the United States Constitution.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Marriage and the law: understood properly, the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution actually protects the right of states to refuse to recognize same-sex 'marriages' legitimized in other states.

In the press, on talk radio, and on television, self-styled conservatives and liberals alike are warning Americans that the forced recognition of homo...

• The New American
• March 07, 2005