World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. Et Al. v. Woodson - Supreme Court of the United States

By Supreme Court of the United States

Release Date: 1980-01-21

Genre: Law

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The issue before us is whether, consistently with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, an Oklahoma court may exercise in personam jurisdiction over a nonresident automobile retailer and its wholesale distributor in a products-liability action, when the defendants only connection with Oklahoma is the fact that an automobile sold in New York to New York residents became involved in an accident in Oklahoma.

World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. Et Al. v. Woodson - Supreme Court of the United States

By Supreme Court of the United States

Release Date: 1980-01-21

Genre: Law

(0 ratings)
The issue before us is whether, consistently with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, an Oklahoma court may exercise in personam jurisdiction over a nonresident automobile retailer and its wholesale distributor in a products-liability action, when the defendants only connection with Oklahoma is the fact that an automobile sold in New York to New York residents became involved in an accident in Oklahoma.

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