In the wake of the defense wins during the last Supreme Court term in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court, 137 S.Ct. 1773 (2017) (“BMS”), and BNSF Railway Co. v. Tyrell, 137 S.Ct. 1549 (2017), we’re retiring the personal jurisdiction cheat sheet we had been maintaining for the last three-plus years
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Lone Pine Cheat Sheet
By Michelle Yeary on
Whenever we learn about the entry of a Lone Pine order, we take the opportunity to extoll the virtues of Lore v. Lone Pine Corp., 1986 WL 637507 (N.J. Sup. Ct. Nov. 18, 1986) in which a New Jersey state court judge ordered plaintiffs to offer proof connecting the defendant’s product to the plaintiff’s alleged…
Beating a Pro Se Plaintiff is Not Always Prosaic
By Stephen McConnell on
Ask 100 federal prosecutors if there is any part of the job they do not like, and at least 99 of them will mention responding to prisoner habeas corpus petitions. First, they are written incoherently, so it is hard figuring out what the petitioner is asking for and on what grounds. Then you have the…
TwIqbal Cheat Sheet
By Bexis on
We’re inaugurating a new feature today. It’s sort of half way between our scorecards, which we keep up to date (as best we’re able) with both favorable and adverse decisions on a particular subject, and our usual defense-side cheerleading that hails defense wins and excoriates our losses.
What we’re going to start is something we…