In our increasingly mobile society, it is not uncommon for couples to relocate numerous times throughout their marriage and acquire property and assets in different states. When a divorce dissolves ...

July 27, 2021 - The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court has renewed interest in the importance of personal jurisdiction disputes.

In 2016, we authored an article titled “Pretrial Problems: Don’t Forfeit Your Personal-Jurisdiction Defense.” In that article, we discussed the Seventh Circuit’s decision in German American Financial ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. From 1990 until 2010, the Supreme Court decided no cases about personal jurisdiction, the legal doctrine controlling when a ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short ...

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It meant under the authority of U.S. law, thus excluding foreign diplomats, foreign armies and (at the time) Native American tribes. In this post I'll consider the original meaning of the second ...

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment imposes limits on the scope of personal jurisdiction that may be asserted by state courts. As the Fifth Amendment also contains a Due Process Clause, ...

Is venue different from jurisdiction? I often hear lawyers talk about the venue and where to file the case, but I also sometimes hear them say that the court has no jurisdiction over it. Are these ...

Universal jurisdiction, the idea that any nation’s courts can try people for atrocities committed anywhere, has gained as a tool of human rights lawyers battling impunity. By Rick Gladstone After a ...