Legal Opinion
Chenault v. Walker
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided January 12, 2001PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · DrowotaDrowota, J.
ANDERSON, C.J., BIRCH, HOLDER and BARKER, JJ. joined.
The issue in this case is whether the Tennessee long arm statute, Tenn.Code Ann. § 20-2-214, and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allow courts in Tennessee to obtain personal jurisdiction over a defendant based on what has been termed the “conspiracy theory” of personal jurisdiction. This theory holds that an out-of-state defendant involved in a conspiracy who lacks sufficient “minimum contacts” with the forum state may nevertheless be subject to jurisdiction because of a co-conspirator’s contacts with the…
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