Volkswagen Vs Woodson Summary
World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson
Facts: In 1976, Harry and Kay Robinson purchased a new Audi automobile from Seaway Volkswagen, Inc (Seaway) in Massena, N.Y. The following year the Robinson family, who resided in New York, left that state for a new home in Arizona. As they passed through Oklahoma, another car struck their Audi in the rear, causing a fire which severely burned Kay Robinson and her two children. The Robinsons subsequently brought a products-liability action in the District Court for Creek County, Oklahoma, claiming that their injuries resulted from defective design and placement of the Audi’s gas tank and fuel system. They brought suit against the automobile’s manufacturer (Audi), its importer (Volkswagen of America), …show more content…
World Wide and Seaway have no “contacts, ties, or relations” with the State of Oklahoma. They carry on no activity whatsoever in Oklahoma. They close no sales and perform no services there. They avail themselves of none of the privileges and benefits of Oklahoma law. They solicit no business there either through salespersons or through advertising reasonably calculated to reach the State. They do not sell regularly cars at wholesale or retail to Oklahoma customers or residents. In short, World Wide and Seaway have insufficient ties with the State of Oklahoma, therefore Oklahoma courts cannot practice in personam jurisdiction against …show more content…
Board of Education of Topeka
Facts: Black children were denied admission to public schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting segregation according to race. A group of African Americans contend that segregated public schools are not equal and that they deprive black people of the equal protection of the law. The district courts in Kansas, South Carolina, and Virginia denied relief to the plaintiffs and upheld the “separate but equal” doctrine. In the Delaware case, the Supreme Court of Delaware adhered to that doctrine, but ordered that the plaintiffs be admitted to the white schools because of their superiority to the black schools.
Issue: Does the segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race deprive the minority children of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th Amendment?
Decision: In favor of the plaintiffs. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the decision of the lower courts and ruled that racial segregation in public education deprives black people of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth
Facts: In 1976, Harry and Kay Robinson purchased a new Audi automobile from Seaway Volkswagen, Inc (Seaway) in Massena, N.Y. The following year the Robinson family, who resided in New York, left that state for a new home in Arizona. As they passed through Oklahoma, another car struck their Audi in the rear, causing a fire which severely burned Kay Robinson and her two children. The Robinsons subsequently brought a products-liability action in the District Court for Creek County, Oklahoma, claiming that their injuries resulted from defective design and placement of the Audi’s gas tank and fuel system. They brought suit against the automobile’s manufacturer (Audi), its importer (Volkswagen of America), …show more content…
World Wide and Seaway have no “contacts, ties, or relations” with the State of Oklahoma. They carry on no activity whatsoever in Oklahoma. They close no sales and perform no services there. They avail themselves of none of the privileges and benefits of Oklahoma law. They solicit no business there either through salespersons or through advertising reasonably calculated to reach the State. They do not sell regularly cars at wholesale or retail to Oklahoma customers or residents. In short, World Wide and Seaway have insufficient ties with the State of Oklahoma, therefore Oklahoma courts cannot practice in personam jurisdiction against …show more content…
Board of Education of Topeka
Facts: Black children were denied admission to public schools attended by white children under laws requiring or permitting segregation according to race. A group of African Americans contend that segregated public schools are not equal and that they deprive black people of the equal protection of the law. The district courts in Kansas, South Carolina, and Virginia denied relief to the plaintiffs and upheld the “separate but equal” doctrine. In the Delaware case, the Supreme Court of Delaware adhered to that doctrine, but ordered that the plaintiffs be admitted to the white schools because of their superiority to the black schools.
Issue: Does the segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race deprive the minority children of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th Amendment?
Decision: In favor of the plaintiffs. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the decision of the lower courts and ruled that racial segregation in public education deprives black people of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth