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Sosna Vs. Iowa

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 14, 1975

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  14. U.S. 393 (1975) U.S. Supreme Court Sosna v. Iowa
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  15. U.S. 393 (1975) Sosna v. Iowa
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  16. and who, upon certification of the class action, acquired a legal status separate from her asserted interest. Dunn v. Blumstein
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  17. as of the State's desire to insulate its divorce decrees from the likelihood of successful collateral attack. Shapiro v. Thompson
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  18. Memorial Hospital v. Maricopa
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  19. in that sense, but residence in the State for one year. See Vlandis v. Kline
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  20. Moreover, no total deprivation of access to divorce courts, but only delay in such access, is involved here. Boddie v. Connecticut
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  21. States District Court should have proceeded to the merits of the constitutional issue presented in light of Younger v. Harris
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  22. and the fact that she has obtained a divorce elsewhere would make this case moot, and require dismissal. Alton v. Alton
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  23. SEC v. Medical
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  24. of the view that this factor significantly affects the mootness determination. In Southern Pacific Terminal Co. v. ICC
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  25. U. S. 498 (1911), where a challenged ICC order had expired, and in Moore v. Ogilvie
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  26. restrictions for the period necessary to see such a lawsuit to its conclusion. This problem was present in Dunn v. Blumstein
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  27. contended that his challenge to the county requirement was moot. The District Court rejected this argument, Blumstein v. Ellington
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  28. Vaughan v. Bower
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  29. the class which he or she seeks to represent at the time the class action is certified by the district court. Bailey v. Patterson
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  30. Cases decided by this Court over a period of more than a century bear witness to this historical fact. In Barber v. Barber
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  31. In Pennoyer v. Neff
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  32. and the same view was reaffirmed in Simms v. Simms
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  33. to have much the same meaning as is ordinarily associated with the concept of domicile. Korsrud v. Korsrud
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  34. those who have recently exercised their right to travel to Iowa, thereby contravening the Court's holdings in Shapiro v. Thompson
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  35. and Memorial Hospital v. Maricopa
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  36. residence, and therefore denies such residents access to the only method of legally dissolving their marriage. Vlandis v. Kline
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  37. reasonably be justified on grounds other than purely budgetary considerations or administrative convenience. Cf. Kahn v. Shevin
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  38. Williams v. North
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  39. an individualized determination of residency violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Vlandis v. Kline
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  40. Id. at 412 U. S. 452 . See Starns v. Malkerson
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  41. but residence in the State for a year in order for its courts to exercise their divorce jurisdiction. In Boddie v. Connecticut
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  42. of sovereign immunity in the District Court would not have barred Iowa from raising that issue in this Court, Edelman v. Jordan
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  43. Ford Motor Co. v. Department
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  44. any defense of sovereign immunity by entering a voluntary appearance and defending a suit on the merits. McKeown v. Brown
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  45. Our request that the parties address themselves to Younger v. Harris
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  46. a). Cf. Zahn v. International
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  47. the problems associated with a Rule 23(b)(3) class action, which were considered by this Court last Term in Eisen v. Carlisle
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  48. This has been the prevailing view in the Circuits. See, e.g., Cleaver v. Wilcox
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  49. Rivera v. Freeman
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  50. Conover v. Montemuro
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