(Source: Reuters, March 4, 2017)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On April 25, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in BNSF Railway v. Tyrrell, the latest in a recent string of cases to consider general jurisdiction for suits against multistate and multinational corporations. As you probably recall, the Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in Daimler v. Bauman, building on the court’s 2011 ruling in Goodyear v. Brown, mostly restricted general jurisdiction for out-of-state plaintiffs to states in which the defendant’s business is incorporated or headquartered.
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