Local lawyer and all-around good guy Ashley Keller just got a huge win on a Supreme Court case he argued this term. Personal jurisdiction issue. If a state requires a corporation to consent to personal jurisdiction in the state as a condition of doing business in the state, can that corporation be sued in the state even where (1) the dispute does not have any connection to the state; (2) the state is not the corporation's principal place of business; and (3) the state is not the corporation's place of incorporation? Answer: Yes.
In a landmark reaffirmance of some century-old precedent, the Court held that nothing in the due process clause prevents a state from requiring a foreign corporation to consent to general (personal) jurisdiction as a condition of registering to do business in that state.
The opinion is below and it’s a good read with an interesting mixed majority.
Now all the lawyers down here need to get the Florida legislature to pass the same law!
Mallory Opinion by John Byrne on Scribd
Great case. More like…all the plaintiff lawyers down here need to open an office in Pennsylvania.
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Impressive win and the usual obnoxious Gorsich opinion.
ReplyDeleteHis firm has offices in Chicago Austin and DC. I guess we have different definitions of local.