Redefining Personal Jurisdiction: SCOTUS rules on the Ford Cases [More with McGlinchey Ep. 19]
In our last “Year in Review” issue covering developments in 2020, we examined opinions from three U.S. Courts of Appeals—the Fifth, Seventh, and D.C. Circuits—concerning the hotly contested issue of whether (and how) the...more
Personal jurisdiction is perhaps one of the most complicated areas in litigation. Each successive case since International Shoe Co. v. Washington, seems to create more new questions than answers, and the unanimous decision...more
In 2017, the Supreme Court issued an 8-1 opinion in Bristol-Myers Squibb holding that 592 plaintiffs who took the medication Plavix outside of California could not bring suit in California because personal jurisdiction was...more