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Rios v. Altamont Farms

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Feb 5, 1985
64 N.Y.2d 792 (N.Y. 1985)
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holding exercise of personal jurisdiction to be in accordance with due process such that default judgment was entitled to full faith and credit

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Opinion

Argued January 3, 1985

Decided February 5, 1985

Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department, Lawrence E. Kahn, J.

Howard Schell Reilly and Thomas A. Harnett for appellants.

S. Steven Karalekas and George Rusk, Jr., for respondent.

Joseph A. Ruskay for New York Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.

Order reversed, with costs, and the order and the judgment of Supreme Court reinstated for reasons stated in the dissenting opinion by Justice Howard A. Levine at the Appellate Division ( 100 A.D.2d 405, 411-418).

Concur: Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges JASEN, MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE and ALEXANDER.

Summaries of

Rios v. Altamont Farms

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Feb 5, 1985
64 N.Y.2d 792 (N.Y. 1985)

holding exercise of personal jurisdiction to be in accordance with due process such that default judgment was entitled to full faith and credit

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finding personal jurisdiction over a foreign defendant who had submitted clearance orders to the interstate clearance system aware of the reality that such orders would be forwarded to surplus labor areas such as Puerto Rico

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adopting dissenting opinion of Levine, J., in 100 A.D.2d 405, 475 N.Y.S.2d 520 (N.Y.A.D. 1984)

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In Rios, unlike this case, the defendant apple growers received substantial benefits from the forum state's (Puerto Rico's) labor department in recruiting and processing the laborers who ultimately became the plaintiffs.

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Case details for

Rios v. Altamont Farms

Case Details

Full title:NELLY RIOS, Individually and as Legal Representative of JUAN V. RIOS, et…

Court:Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Feb 5, 1985

Citations

64 N.Y.2d 792 (N.Y. 1985)
486 N.Y.S.2d 913
476 N.E.2d 312

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