Supreme Court· 5/18/1981

Webb v. Webb

Citations

451 U.S. 493
101 S. Ct. 1889
68 L. Ed. 2d 392
1981 U.S. LEXIS 97
49 U.S.L.W. 4500

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holding where the Georgia Supreme Court failed to rule on federal issue, the United States Supreme Court was without jurisdiction in the case
holding that constitutional error was waived, even though petitioner repeatedly used the phrase “full faith and credit,” because petitioner did not cite to the federal Constitution or to any cases relying on the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the federal Constitution
Younger princi-pies of comity used as rationale for rule that the Supreme Court will not review a state supreme court judgment if the federal issue was not adequately presented in the state system
federal claim properly raised where there is “no doubt from the record that [the claim] was presented in the state courts and that those courts were apprised of the nature or substance of the federal claim”

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Judges: White, Burger, Brennan, Stewart, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens, Marshall

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