SMALLEY v. KAISER

No. 23667.

950 P.2d 1248 (1997)

130 Idaho 909

Martin SMALLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Teresa KAISER, Director of the State of Missouri Department of Social Services Division of Child Support Enforcement; Lisa Helle, Authorized Representative of the Director of the State of Missouri Department of Social Services Division of Child Support Enforcement; Kay Moore, Child Support Enforcement Technician, State of Missouri Department of Social Services Division of Child Support Enforcement; and John Does 1 through 100, Defendants-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Idaho. Coeur d'Alene, October 1997 Term.

December 30, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paine, Hamblen, Coffin, Brooke & Miller, Coeur d'Alene, for appellant. Michael B. Hague argued.

John B. Geddes, Coeur d'Alene; Gretchen E. Rowan, Asst. Attorney General, State of Missouri, St. Louis, for respondents. Gretchen E. Rowan argued.


JOHNSON, Justice.

This is a personal jurisdiction case. We conclude that Idaho does not have personal jurisdiction over a Missouri administrative agency and its employees in a suit seeking injunctive relief prohibiting certain child support collection activities.

I.

THE BACKGROUND AND PRIOR PROCEEDINGS

Martin Smalley (the father) is a resident of Kootenai County, Idaho. An Idaho court awarded the father custody of his child (the child)...

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