ROBERT TERCIER v. UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, INC.

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• determining whether law under which judgment was ordered was penal and, therefore, not subject to enforcement in another state
• stating that the strict and primary distinction between a penal and remedial law is whether the wrong done is one to the public or to an individual, and that in many instances where a statute gives accumulative damages to the party grieved, it is not a penal action
• “Laws have no force of themselves beyond the jurisdiction of the State which enacts them, and can have extra-territorial effect only by the comity of other States”
• “Laws have no force of themselves beyond the jurisdiction of the state which enacts them, and can have extraterritorial effect only by the comity of other states”
• hold- ing that §2462 applies to SEC disgorgement claims
• “The question whether a statute of one state ... is a penal law ... depends upon the question whether its purpose is to punish an offense against the public justice of the state, or to afford a private remedy to a person injured by the wrongful act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).