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U.S. Supreme Court Provisionally Reinstates the Corporate Transparency Act

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The U.S. Supreme Court issued an order on January 23, 2025, which provisionally reinstates the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) while a legal challenge to it continues. This brief order, which stayed an injunction against the...more

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The Status of the Corporate Transparency Act – It’s Not Clear

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Few would argue that the federal government does not have a legitimate interest in preventing, detecting, and punishing tax fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes. Likewise, I imagine few would disagree with the...more

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Lawsuit Highlights the Complexity of Regulating the Intrastate Use of Marijuana

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One of the most interesting aspects of marijuana law and policy in the U.S. is its tendency to strike at our most foundational democratic principles. In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in Gonzales v. Raich, that Congress...more

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Supreme Court Expands General Jurisdiction in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., Marking Departure from “At Home”...

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The test for personal jurisdiction, which asks whether a defendant can be compelled to litigate in a particular state, has been extensively developed over the past several decades, and notably refined in the last fifteen...more

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Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.: Supreme Court Recognizes Existence of Consent-Based Theory of General Personal...

The US Supreme Court recently issued a decision in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co holding that a Pennsylvania statute requiring corporations to "consent" to suit in Pennsylvania courts in order to register to do...more

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Supreme Court Holds Corporation Waived Due Process Rights and Consented to General Personal Jurisdiction by Registering to do...

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On June 27, 2023, the United States Supreme Court held in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern R. Co., No. 21-1168, 2023 WL 4187749, that Norfolk Southern submitted to the state of Pennsylvania’s general jurisdiction (that is, being...more

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Now What: Recent Supreme Court Decision Opens the Door for Expanded Corporate Personal Jurisdiction

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Here at Foley, we routinely represent companies, whether manufacturers, distributors, service providers, or others that are, by necessity, registered to do business in most or all of the fifty states. For years, the U.S....more

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Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. Likely to Spawn New Attempts at Litigation Tourism

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Tag, You’re It! SCOTUS Ruling Against Norfolk Southern Extends Reach of Personal Jurisdiction Upon Corporate Defendants - A plurality of the United States Supreme Court recently issued a ruling that will likely permit...more

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Losing Your International Shoe: Corporations May Waive Contacts-Based Personal Jurisdiction in Consent-by-Registration States

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Late last month the Supreme Court of the United States opened the door to a potential sea change in personal jurisdiction over corporate entities. In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company, the Court held that any...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railroad: U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision on Jurisdiction

The United States Supreme Court reversed the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., finding Pennsylvania’s consent to jurisdiction by corporate registration unconstitutional in a 5-4...more

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Can You Be Sued In Any State? The Supreme Court’s Decision in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Suggests So

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A recent (and surprising) ruling of the United States Supreme Court may allow businesses to be sued in states in which they have little connection. The United States Supreme Court, split 5-4 (Gorsuch, Thomas, Alito, Sotomayor...more

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Mallory Opinion: Constitutionality Of Jurisdiction By Registration May Be A Mirage

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The Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.. concerned the constitutionality of a Pennsylvania statute providing that registering to do business in the state constitutes a sufficient basis...more

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You May Have Already Agreed to Be Sued in Pennsylvania and Georgia: The Supreme Court Makes Jurisdiction Easier For State-Court...

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The US Supreme Court has held that companies can be forced, as a condition of doing business in a state, to agree to be sued in that state’s courts — even if the lawsuit has nothing to do with that state. In its June 27,...more

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Supreme Court Narrows Dormant Commerce Clause Protections Against Regulation of Business in Decision Affirming California Pork Law

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The dormant Commerce Clause is one of the oldest constitutional doctrines, dating to the early 1800s. The Commerce Clause of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce, and the dormant...more

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Supreme Court’s Review of California’s Proposition 12 Could Have Implications for State Climate, Energy, and Public Health...

On Monday, March 28, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear industry’s challenge to California’s Proposition 12, a law restricting certain confinement practices in industrial animal agriculture. The case, styled National...more

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Private Employer Vaccine Mandate Moves Forward as Sixth Circuit Dissolves Fifth Circuit’s OSHA ETS Stay

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On December 17, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which was chosen via lottery as the federal appellate court to decide whether the OSHA ETS, i.e., the private employer vaccine mandate, would go...more

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Supreme Court Set to Hear Oral Argument on OSHA Vaccine Rule – What Will This Mean for Government Contractors?

In the latest round of litigation on the rules being rolled out to implement the Biden Administration’s Path Out of the Pandemic, the Supreme Court signed orders yesterday to hold oral argument on January 7th, 2022 on the...more

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And They’re Back: Sixth Circuit Lifts Stay on OSHA’s ETS Regarding Mandatory Vaccination or Testing

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On December 17, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit lifted the stay of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) which had previously been halted by the...more

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The Rollercoaster Continues to Roll: Federal Vaccine Mandates Back On?

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We recently provided updates on the complex and unsettled legal landscape surrounding the various federal vaccine mandates in an FAQ, “Vaccination Mandates: The Latest on OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard, Other Mandatory...more

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Stay of OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard Lifted By Sixth Circuit – “All Systems Go,” For Now…

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A divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit lifted the stay on the Occupational Safety and Health Association’s Emergency Temporary Standard (“OSHA ETS”) late Friday night (December 17, 2021)....more

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Friday Night Fights – What Just Happened to the OSHA and Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandates?

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On the evening of December 17, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit dissolved the Fifth Circuit’s stay of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard...more

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Sixth Circuit Panel Dissolves Stay of OSHA Vaccine/Testing Mandate

On December 17, 2021, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, dissolved the stay previously placed on OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) by the Fifth Circuit. The ETS mandates employers with 100 or...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

SCOTUS denies certiorari in New York opioid stewardship payment challenge

On October 4, 2021, the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari in an appeal from a decision of the Second Circuit which held that New York’s opioid stewardship payment, required as part of the New York Opioid...more

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Pennsylvania Administratively Sets Bright-Line Economic Nexus Threshold for Corporate Net Income Tax

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The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue issued a bulletin announcing its view that the US Supreme Court’s sales and use tax decision in Wayfair v. South Dakota applies equally to corporate net income tax and authorizes the...more

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NEWSFLASH: Texas v. United States

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “ACA”) has survived two trips to the U.S. Supreme Court. It now appears as though a third is likely....more

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