International Shoe Co. v. State of Washington - Significance, Corporations, People, And Legal Fictions, Minimum Contacts And Personal Jurisdiction, An Important Precedent
appellant court unemployment pay
Appellant
International Shoe Company
Appellee
State of Washington
Appellant's Claim
As a Delaware-based corporation whose factory was located in Missouri, International Shoe was not liable to pay into the state unemployment compensation fund in the state of Washington.
Chief Lawyer for Appellant
Henry C. Lowenhaupt
Chief Lawyer for Appellee
George W. Wilkins, Assistant Attorney General of the State of Washington
Justices for the Court
Hugo Lafayette Black, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, Frank Murphy, Stanley Forman Reed, Owen Josephus Roberts, Wiley Blount Rutledge, Harlan Fiske Stone (writing for the Court)
Justices Dissenting
None (Robert H. Jackson did not participate)
Place
Washington, D.C.
Date of Decision
3 December 1945
Decision
That International Shoe was liable to pay state unemployment tax in Washington State because it had had "minimum contacts" with that state.
Related Cases
- International Harvester Co. v. Kentucky, 234 U.S. 579 (1914).
- People's Tobacco Co. v. American Tobacco Co., 246 U.S. 79 (1918).
- Southern Pacific Co. v. Arizona, 325 U.S. 761 (1945).
- Burger King Corp, v. Rudzewicz, 471 U.S. 462 (1985).
- Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court of California, 480 U.S. 102 (1987).
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