In his Complex Litigation column, Michael Hoenig analyzes the Supreme Court's recent decisions on general and specific jurisdiction, which must be regarded by litigators and courts as pivotal rulings ...

In the past few years, the Supreme Court has issued a number of decisions emphasizing that the Constitution’s limits on personal jurisdiction have real teeth. In its seminal decision in Daimler AG v.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County brings the justices once again to the thorny problems of personal jurisdiction: When is it appropriate for a court in one ...

It is axiomatic that, absent consent, a court without personal jurisdiction lacks authority to adjudicate claims brought in a lawsuit. Long ago, personal jurisdiction was relatively straightforward ...

A recent opinion from the California Court of Appeals perhaps illustrates the extent to which defendants have been emboldened by the United States Supreme Court's decision striking down personal ...

In 2004, two North Carolina teenagers were killed in a bus accident in France that occurred after a tire on the bus blew out and the bus overturned. The tire was designed, manufactured, and ...

NexLearn v. Allen Interactions, Inc., Nos. 2016-2170, 2016-2221, (Fed. Cir. June 19, 2017) (Before Moore, Schall, and Hughes, J.) (Opinion for the court, Moore, J ...

In its seminal 2014 decision Daimler AG v. Bauman, the U.S. Supreme Court imposed strict limits on the authority of courts to exercise personal jurisdiction over out-of-state corporate defendants. It ...

July 27, 2021 - The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court has renewed interest in the importance of personal jurisdiction disputes.

On June 19, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 8-1 decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of California (No. 16-466, June 19, 2017) (BMS). The court clarified whether a state court ...