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Shaffer Vs. Heitner

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 24, 1977

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  4. Arndt Vs. Griggs US Supreme Court · Mar 17, 1890
  5. Pennoyer Vs. Neff US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1878
  6. Freeman Vs. Alderson US Supreme Court · Nov 29, 1886
  7. Ballard Vs. Hunter US Supreme Court · Jan 14, 1907
  8. Milliken Vs. Meyer US Supreme Court · Dec 23, 1940
  9. U.S. 186 (1977) U.S. Supreme Court Shaffer v. Heitner
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  10. U.S. 186 (1977) Shaffer v. Heitner
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  11. contacts with Delaware to sustain jurisdiction of that State's courts under the rule of International Shoe Co. v. Washington
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  12. s territorial jurisdiction a prerequisite to its rendition of a personally binding judgment against him, Pennoyer v. Neff
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  13. jurisdiction over a nonresident must be evaluated according to the minimum contacts standard of International Shoe Co. v. Washington
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  14. the adoption of new procedures that do not comport with the basic values of our constitutional heritage. Cf. Sniadach v. Family
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  15. not capable of attachment in Delaware. In addition, appellants asserted that, under the rule of International Shoe Co. v. Washington
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  16. appearance of a nonresident defendant to answer and defend a suit brought against him in a court of equity. Sands v. Lefcourt
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  17. property is held, the court concluded, rendered inapplicable the due process requirements enunciated in Sniadach v. Family
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  18. at 85-87. On appeal, the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Court of Chancery. Greyhound Corp. v. Heitner
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  19. On this issue, we agree with the analysis made and the conclusion reached by Judge Stapleton in U.S. Industries, Inc. v. Gregg
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  20. analysis assumes the continued soundness of the conceptual structure founded on the century-old case of Pennoyer v. Neff
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  21. of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Id. at 95 U. S. 732 -733. See also e.g., Freeman v. Alderson
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  22. give a property owner personal notice that his property was involved in an in rem proceeding. See, e.g., Ballard v. Hunter
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  23. Huling v. Kaw
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  24. St. John's L.Rev. 668, 670 (1975). For example, in the well known case of Harris v. Balk
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  25. Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Deer
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  26. See Lafayette Ins. Co. v. French
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  27. the State, and so subject to service of process under the rule of Pennoyer. See, e.g., International Harvester Co. v. Kentucky
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  28. Philadelphia & Reading R. Co. v. McKibbin
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  29. legal fiction that left the conceptual structure established in Pennoyer theoretically unaltered. Cf. Olberding v. Illinois
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  30. highways, had, by using those highways, appointed a designated state official as his agent to accept process. See Hess v. Pawloski
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  31. whether they were met absorbed much judicial energy. See, e.g., International Shoe Page 433 U. S. 203 Co. v. Washington
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  32. Hutchinson v. Chase
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  33. that the maintenance of the suit does not offend 'traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice.' Milliken v. Meyer
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  34. of the relationship of the underlying dispute and the property owner to the forum. See, e.g., U.S. Industries, Inc. v. Gregg
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  35. Jonnet v. Dollar
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  36. Camire v. Scieszka
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  37. Bekins v. Huish
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  38. Atkinson v. Superior
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  39. Court, 49 Cal.2d 338, 316 P.2d 960 (1957), appeal dismissed and cert. denied sub nom. Columbia Broadcasting System v. Atkinson
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  40. reasonable and appropriate efforts have been made to give the property owners actual notice of the action. Schroeder v. City
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  41. Walker v. City
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  42. Mullane v. Central
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  43. rem directly affects the property owner by divesting him of his rights in the property before the court. Schroeder v. City
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  44. Continental Grain Co. v. Barge
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  45. For the type of quasi in rem action typified by Harris v. Balk
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  46. that jurisdiction based solely on the presence of property satisfies the demands of due process, cf. Ownbey v. Morgan
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  47. adoption of new procedures that are inconsistent with the basic values of our constitutional heritage. Cf. Sniadach v. Family
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  48. International Shoe Co. v. Washington
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  49. procedure used here may be most frequently used in derivative suits against officers and directors, Hughes Tool Co. v. Fawcett
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  50. U.S. Industries, Inc. v. Gregg
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