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Supreme Court Clarifies CAFA Amount in Controversy

By Sean Wajert on December 16, 2014
Posted in Articles, Class Action

Readers will recognize that the Class Action Fairness Act (“CAFA”) provides a mechanism for removing to federal court various class actions,…
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Supreme Court Issues General Jurisdiction Opinion

By Sean Wajert on January 21, 2014
Posted in Articles, Consumer Products

The U.S. Supreme Court rued last week that defendant DaimlerChrysler Corp. could not be sued in in California over an Argentine subsidiary’s all…
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Judge Nominated for Vacant State Supreme Court Slot

By Sean Wajert on June 17, 2013
Posted in Articles

For our readers with litigation in Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett announced last week that he will nominate state Superior Court (app…
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Supreme Court Decides Comcast

By Sean Wajert on April 4, 2013
Posted in Articles, Class Action

The Supreme Court weighed back in on the issues of class certification last month in Comcast v. Behrend, No. 11-864 (U.S. 3/27/13). Writing for the ma…
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Federalists Debate Business in Supreme Court

By Sean Wajert on November 21, 2012
Posted in Articles

Let’s get out of the weeds today and think lofty thoughts. The Federalist Society’s 2012 National Lawyers Convention was held earlier this month in Wa…
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Supreme Court Grants Cert in CAFA Case

By Sean Wajert on September 5, 2012
Posted in Articles, Class Action

Here is one to watch, especially for our readers with a class action practice. The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari last week in a case raising t…
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Cameras in the Supreme Court?

By Sean Wajert on December 8, 2011
Posted in Articles

While we at MassTortDefense usually focus on the results of appellate advocacy, earlier this week saw an interesting debate about a process issue: whe…
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Amicus Urges Supreme Court to Reverse Causation Junk Science Decision

By Sean Wajert on October 20, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

DRI (the Defense Research Institute) last week submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision that thre…
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State Supreme Court Directed to Reconsider Jurisdiction Over Foreign Defendant

By Sean Wajert on October 13, 2011
Posted in Articles

The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month instructed Oregon’s supreme court to reconsider the state court’s exercise of jurisdiction over a Taiwanese …
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Supreme Court Decides Two Personal Jurisdiction Cases

By Sean Wajert on June 29, 2011
Posted in Articles, Consumer Products

At the end of the term, the Supreme Court decided two important personal jurisdiction cases, J.McIntyre Machinery Ltd. v. Nicastro, U.S., No. 09-1343,…
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