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CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART v. PETTY

No. 21-CV-0695.

291 A.3d 217 (2023)

The CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART and the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Appellants, v. Susanne Jill PETTY, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 23, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Patrizia , Washington, DC, with whom Stephen B. Kinnaird , Washington, DC, and David S. Julyan were on the brief, for appellants.

Hannah Wigger , Washington, DC, with whom Jim Burgess , Paul Werner , and Calla Simeone , Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before Deahl and AliKhan, Associate Judges, and Glickman, Senior Judge.

The Constitution's Full Faith and Credit Clause generally obliges the District of Columbia courts to give conclusive effect to judgments issued by other states' courts. U.S. Const. art IV, § 1. That is not an inexorable command, however, and we "may inquire into the jurisdictional basis of the foreign court's decree...

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