Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Inc.

Keeton v. Hustler Magazine
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 8, 1983 Decided March 20, 1984
Full case name	Kathy Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Inc.
Citations	465 U.S. 770 (more) 104 S. Ct. 1473; 79 L. Ed. 2d 790; 1984 U.S. LEXIS 40
Case history
Prior	682 F.2d 33 (1st Cir. 1982); cert. granted, 459 U.S. 1169 (1983).
Holding
A state's courts could assert personal jurisdiction over the publisher of a defamatory article, where the publisher circulated the publication in the state where the case was brought, regardless of the plaintiff's home state.
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 opinions
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by Burger, White, Marshall, Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, O’Connor
Concurrence	Brennan (in judgment)
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Inc., 465 U.S. 770 (1984), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that a state could assert personal jurisdiction over the publisher of a national magazine which published an allegedly defamatory article about a resident of another state, and where the magazine had wide circulation in that state.^[1]