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Allstate Ins. Co. Vs. Hague

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 13, 1981

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  1. Shaffer Vs. Heitner US Supreme Court · Jun 24, 1977
  2. Carroll Vs. Lanza US Supreme Court · Jun 06, 1955
  3. Hanson Vs. Denckla US Supreme Court · Jun 23, 1958
  4. U.S. 302 (1981) U.S. Supreme Court Allstate Ins. Co. v. Hague
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  5. U.S. 302 (1980) Allstate Ins. Co. v. Hague
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  6. lawsuit, may justify, in constitutional terms, application of the law of more than one jurisdiction. See, e.g., Watson v. Employers
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  7. n. 11, infra. See generally Clay v. Sun
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  8. In order to ensure that the choice of law is neither arbitrary nor fundamentally unfair, see Alaska Packers Assn. v. Industrial
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  9. Page 449 U. S. 309 Two instructive examples of such invalidation are Home Ins. Co. v. Dick
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  10. U. S. 397 (1930), and John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Yates
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  11. the selection of forum law rested exclusively on the presence of one nonsignificant forum contact. Home Ins. Co. v. Dick
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  12. of the forum State to the parties and the transaction was similarly attenuated in John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Yates
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  13. with the parties and the occurrence are obviously significant. Thus, this case is like Alaska Packers, Cardillo v. Liberty
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  14. Page 449 U. S. 312 In Cardillo v. Liberty
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  15. circumstances. In addition, Mr. Hague commuted to work in Minnesota, a contact which was important in Cardillo v. Liberty
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  16. Cardillo v. Liberty
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  17. Alaska Packers Assn. v. Industrial
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  18. Home Ins. Co. v. Dick
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  19. S. 408 , n. 5. Employment status is not a sufficiently less important status than residence, see generally Carroll v. Lanza
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  20. Clay v. Sun
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  21. respondent -- and a longstanding member of Minnesota's workforce -- Mr. Hague. See Hoopeston Canning Co. v. Cullen
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  22. The stipulated facts, sparse as they are, negate any such inference. While John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Yates
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  23. Minnesota had previously adopted the conceptual model developed by Professor Leflar in Milkovich v. Saari
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  24. Court has examined the relevant contacts and resulting interests of the State whose law was applied. See, e.g., Nevada v. Hall
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  25. under the Due Process Clause for evaluating the constitutionality of choice of law decisions, see Alaska Packers Assn. v. Industrial
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  26. of State whose law was rejected), the Court has since abandoned the weighing of interests requirement. Carroll v. Lanza
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  27. Nevada v. Hall
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  28. Richards v. United
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  29. Richards v. United
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  30. States, supra at 369 U. S. 11 -12. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Delta
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  31. U. S. 402 . There would be no jurisdiction in the Texas courts to entertain such a lawsuit today. See Rush v. Savchuk
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  32. Watson v. Employers
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  33. California and Alaska to determine the full faith and credit issue, such balancing is no longer required. See Nevada v. Hall
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  34. Court has upheld choice of law decisions challenged on constitutional grounds in numerous other decisions. See Nevada v. Hall
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  35. Watson v. Employers
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  36. Pacific Employers Ins. Co. v. Industrial
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  37. in case of injury suffered by Massachusetts employee temporarily in California in course of employment). Thus, Nevada v. Hall
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  38. supra, and Watson v. Employers
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  39. where the relevant contacts consisted of plaintiff's residence and the place of the injury. Pacific Employers Ins. Co. v. Industrial
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  40. Accident Comm'n, supra, and Carroll v. Lanza
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  41. of the injury where there existed some other link between that jurisdiction and the occurrence. See, e.g., Cardillo v. Liberty
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  42. Rosenthal v. Warren
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  43. Clark v. Clark
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  44. Tooker v. Lopez
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  45. Babcock v. Jackson
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  46. Rosenthal v. Warren
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  47. Stacking was the rule in most States at the time the policy was issued. Indeed, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, in Nelson v. Employers
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  48. of a State's contacts may result in divergent conclusions for jurisdiction and choice of law purposes. See Kulko v. California
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  49. U.S. Supreme Court Allstate Ins. Co. v. Hague
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  50. and John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Yates
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