The federal constitutional requirement that the public acts, records, and judicialproceedings of one state be respected by each of the other states. Thus, if a judgment is conclusive in the state where it was pronounced, it is equally beyond dispute everywhere in the courts of the United States. The judgment is entitled to full faith and credit when the second court’s inquiry discloses that the same questions were properly before the first court and were fully and fairly litigated and finally decided there.
EXAMPLE:
Following a long trial, a company is found negligent in manufacturing a product that caused Ayad substantial hair loss. The manufacturer’s assets in that state are insufficient to cover the full amount of the judgment. Ayad can take that judgment to another state where the manufacturer has assets, sue upon that judgment, and by applying the full faith and credit principle, obtain another judgment, and collect whatever he is still owed.
