Miller v. Bock Laundry Machine Co.

To say that the United States Constitution requires Ohio courts to give full faith and credit to foreign judgments begins, rather than ends, our inquiry. This command has been codified in Section 1738, Title 28, United States Code, which provides, in pertinent part, that such judgments “shall have the same full faith and credit in every court within the United States***as they have by law or usage in the courts of such State***from which they are taken.”

Our task, therefore, is to determine what credit or effect Texas courts would have given the foregoing judgment had enforcement been-…