Calder v. Jones

Calder v. Jones
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 8, 1983 Decided March 20, 1984
Full case name	Calder, et al. v. Shirley Jones
Citations	465 U.S. 783 (more) 104 S. Ct. 1482; 79 L. Ed. 2d 804; 1984 U.S. LEXIS 41; 52 U.S.L.W. 4349; 10 Media L. Rep. 1401
Case history
Prior	Jones v. Calder, 138 Cal.App.3d 128, 187 Cal.Rptr. 825 (App. 2d Dist. 1982)
Holding
A state's courts could assert personal jurisdiction over the author or editor of a libelous article, where the author or editor knew that the article would be widely circulated in the state where the subject of the article would be injured by the libelous assertion.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinion
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Calder v. Jones, 465 U.S. 783 (1984), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that a court within a state could assert personal jurisdiction over the author and editor of a national magazine which published an allegedly libelous article about a resident of that state, and where the magazine had wide circulation in that state.^[1]