Reason

Dormant Commerce and Corporate Jurisdiction

Since 1945, the Court has sought for substantive rules of personal jurisdiction in the depths of Fourteenth Amendment due process. Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. returns "dormant commerce" ...
The National Law Review

Ninth Upends Internet Personal Jurisdiction Law–Briskin v. Shopify

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SCOTUSblog

Court upholds state corporate registration law in major personal jurisdiction case

The justices narrowly rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of a Pennsylvania law that allows any company doing business in the state to be sued there – even if the corporation is not ...
Law

Wake Up Out-of-State Corporations, New Basis for Personal Jurisdiction Just Dropped: 'Registration' Jurisdiction

At the end of a term involving headline-grabbing cases involving the "independent legislature doctrine," affirmative action, and the Voting Rights Act, the U.S. Supreme Court also resolved a more ...
Law

Trend Watch: Out-of-Staters Finding the Basis for Personal Jurisdiction

This article explores the history of consent by registration in personal jurisdiction case law, recent decisions at the federal and state level and a proposed amendment in the New York Legislature to ...
Reason

Congress, the Fifth Amendment, and Personal Jurisdiction

Civil procedure students are used to hearing about the rules for state-court personal jurisdiction under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. But the Fifth Amendment has a Due Process Clause ...