Matter of Farmland Dairies v. Barber

The Court stated in Matter of Farmland Dairies v. Barber (65 NY2d 51, 478 NE2d 1314, 489 NYS2d 713 [1985]) the Full Faith and Credit Clause requires "that the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of each State shall be given full faith and credit in every other State. The doctrine does not make a foreign State judgment a judgment in the forum State. Before that occurs and a locus remedy may be obtained, an action must be brought and a judgment entered on the foreign judgment in the forum State . . . If the foreign court had jurisdiction . . . the courts of every other State must give it the same credit, validity and effect as it has in the State which rendered it" (id. at 55).