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Fourteenth Amendment Appellate Courts

Cozen O'Connor

Specific Personal Jurisdiction Established Through Indirect Evidence of Targeting a Market

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In a recent decision, California’s Third Appellate Division held that a foreign automobile manufacturer could be haled into a state court in California through the indirect actions of its distributor without offending...more

Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak

Second Department Reverses Trial Court and Holds State Voting Rights Act to Be Constitutional

On January 30, 2025, the Appellate Division Second Department handed down a decision regarding the constitutionality of the New York State Voting Rights Act. The case, Clarke v. Town of Newburgh, concerned a challenge under...more

Maynard Nexsen

Global Coverage, Global Jurisdiction? Analyzing Efforts to Expand Personal Jurisdiction Over Insurers

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Across the United States, courts disagree about where an insurance company may be subject to personal jurisdiction. For instance, is a territory-of-coverage provision relevant to personal jurisdiction? What about registering...more

Carlton Fields

A Cautionary Note on Honking Your Own Horn

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On April 7, 2023, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in Porter v. Martinez, which addresses California’s law that prohibits honking a car horn except to warn of a safety hazard. Here, Susan Porter drove...more

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When Minor Classroom Misbehavior Escalates to a Federal Court Lawsuit

In a recent case, a seventh grade boy was written up by his teacher because she saw him selling candy in class. The student told an assistant principal that he had hidden the candy in the bottom of a garbage can, and a later...more

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