We’ve always been against the concept of class action tolling:  that merely by filing a class action – the class action does not have to have any merit – a class action lawyer magically stops the running of the statute of limitations for everybody in the class.  To us, this gives Fed. R. Civ. P.

Today’s guest post comes to us courtesy of Dick Dean and Nick Janizeh, both of Tucker Ellis. They’ve been thinking (as have we all) about the ramifications of the BMS decision on personal jurisdiction, and have come up with some conclusions that we found interesting, and we hope that you do, too.  As

What follows is a collaborative effort between Bexis and Reed Smith‘s Kevin Hara, who helped research and write this post.  It’s not really a guest post, but Kevin had such a large hand in it that his contribution deserves to be separately acknowledged.

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As attorneys, we are fond of rules:  they give

Literally for decades plaintiffs in mass torts have employed the business model of flooding jurisdictions seen as friendly to them with more solicited plaintiffs than any court system can possibly handle.  They have employed every forum-shopping trick in the book to trap defendants in these jurisdictions, which usually have no relationship to any party.  After