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August 28, 2023 | Supreme Court Upholds Corporate Personal Jurisdiction Laws
The U.S. Supreme Court issued its first full opinion of the October 2017 term in Hamer v Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, 583 U.S. ____ (2017). While the decision is not a blockbuster, it addresses a key jurisdictional issue in the federal c...
The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided Kernan v Cuero, 583 U.S. ____ (2017). In its per curium opinion, the Court held that the defendant was not entitled to specific performance of a plea agreement later withdrawn by prosecutors. Facts of Kernan v ...
In Roth v US, 354 U.S. 476 (1957), the U.S. Supreme Court held that obscene speech was not protected under the U.S. Constitution. The decision also established a test to determine whether speech should be considered obscene. Facts of Roth...
In BNSF Railway v Tyrrell, the Court addressed when courts have jurisdiction over corporate defendants. It held that “the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause does not permit a state to have an out-of-state corporation before its courts wh...
In Advocate Health Care Network v Stapleton, 581 U. S. ____ (2017), the Supreme Court held that church-affiliated hospitals qualify as a “church plan” under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The Court’s decision, whi...
In Bristol-Myers Squibb Co v Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, 582 U.S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court tightened the requirements for exercising personal jurisdiction. It held that California courts lacked specific jurisdictio...
In Turner v United States, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant new trials to several defendants convicted of the brutal 1984 murder of Catherine Fuller in Washington, D.C. The defendants had argued that prosecutors withhel...
In Weaver v Massachusetts, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that “structural error” requires a showing of prejudice when raised via an ineffective assistance claim. The decision provides clarity regarding the intersection of the...
In California Public Employees’ Retirement System v ANZ Securities, Inc., et al., 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Securities Act of 1933’s (Securities Act) three-year statute of repose is not subject to tolling. Accord...
In Murr v Wisconsin, 582 U. S. ____ (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Wisconsin Supreme Court's ruling that two contiguous lots should be considered one parcel for the purposes of the government taking a case. In so ruling, the Court establi...
In United States v. Hansen, 599 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal law that...
In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 600 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the...
In Smith v. the United States, 599 U.S. ____ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that t...
Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.