What is the test for federal courts to extend full faith and credit to a state court judgment?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Kirkland v. City of Peekskill, 828 F.2d 104 (2nd Cir. 1987):
On appeal, Kirkland reminds us that federal courts must extend full faith and credit to state court judgments only when the state courts themselves would do so, see Allen v. McCurry, 449 U.S. 90, 96, 101 S.Ct. 411, 415-16, 66 L.Ed.2d 308 (1980);
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