Legal Opinion
Allstate Insurance v. Hague
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 2, 1981No. 79-938PublishedCited by 537 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Brennan, joined by Justice White, Justice Marshall, and Justice Blackmun
This Court granted certiorari to determine whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment1 or the Full Faith and Credit Clause of Art. IV, § 1,2 of the United States Constitution bars the Minnesota Supreme Court’s choice of substantive Minnesota law to govern the effect of a provision in an insurance policy issued to respondent’s decedent. 444 U. S. 1070 (1980).
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Respondent’s late husband, Ralph Hague, died of injuries suffered when a motorcycle on which he was a passenger was struck from behind by an automobile. The accident occurred in Pierce County, Wis., which is immediately…
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