# Full Faith and Credit Clause **Status: stub — expand.** Article IV, § 1 — each state must give "Full Faith and Credit... to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State," with Congress empowered to prescribe the manner of proof and effect. The doctrine is asymmetric in a way that drives current conflicts: **judgments** are entitled to near-absolute recognition, while **laws** are not — a state need not apply another state's statute when it has its own sufficient interest and policy. That asymmetry is the fault line in the post-[[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization]] landscape. Shield laws, interstate subpoenas, out-of-state medical records, and civil-liability statutes reaching across state lines all test whether a sister-state judgment obtained under a law the forum state rejects must still be enforced. The clause has not been squarely applied to those conflicts. ## See also - [[Privileges and Immunities Clause]] · [[Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization]] - [[Federalism Powers Crosswalk]] · [[Federalism]]