| McGee v. International Life Insurance Co. | |
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| Argued November 20, 1957 Decided December 16, 1957 | |
| Full case name | McGee v. International Life Insurance Company |
| Citations | 355 U.S. 220 (more) 78 S. Ct. 199; 2 L. Ed. 2d 223; 1957 U.S. LEXIS 2 |
| Case history | |
| Prior | McGee v. International Life Insurance Co., 288 S.W.2d 579 (Tex. App. 1956) |
| Holding | |
| California's long-arm statute did not violate Due Process and the court rightly entered judgment over International Life Insurance. Reversed and remanded. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinion | |
| Majority | Black, joined by Frankfurter, Douglas, Burton, Clark, Harlan, Brennan, Whittaker |
| Warren took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. | |
| Laws applied | |
| 28 U.S.C. § 1738 | |
McGee v. International Life Insurance Co., 355 U.S. 220 (1957), was a case following in the line of decisions interpreting International Shoe v. Washington.[1] The Court declared that California did not violate the due process clause by entering a judgment upon a Texas insurance company who was engaged in a dispute over a policy it maintained with a California resident. The importance of this finding is highlighted by the facts of the case; mainly that International Life Insurance did no other business within the state of California besides maintaining this single policy, which the company became responsible for by its acquisition of another insurance company which previously had held the policy. However; the case never explicitly stated that no other business was conducted within California and the previous assumption is presumptive by definition.
- ^ Jack H. Friedenthal ET Al., Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials (9th ed. 2005).