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TikTok, which is owned by Chinas ByteDance and filed suit in May, asked US District Judge Donald W. Molloy to issue a preliminary injunction to block the first-of-its-kind US state ban on several grounds, arguing it violates the First Amendment free speech rights of the company and users.

On June 27, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States held 5-4 that a Pennsylvania statute requiring an out-of-state company to submit to general…

Washington legalized cannabis more than a decade ago, but only in recent years has the state attempted to undo the outsize harm that previous cannabis...

The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold California’s Proposition 12 has opened up a lot of discussion about the precedence it has set that will reach far beyond pork and poultry.

On June 27, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States held 5-4 that a Pennsylvania statute requiring an out-of-state company to submit to general personal jurisdiction within the...

On 27 June 2023, in a plurality opinion authored by Justice Gorsuch, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., holding that a...

Before you begin wondering if my account was hacked by activists from the Southern Poverty Law Center, allow me to assure you that wasn’t the case. The title is a reference to a recent op-ed fro...

On June 27, 2023, a fractured Supreme Court held in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. that a Pennsylvania law requiring out-of-state businesses to consent to the jurisdiction of...

The decision risks opening the door to increased forum shopping in states with consent-by-registration systems, but significant questions remain about the extent of those risks.

The US Supreme Court has held that companies can be forced, as a condition of doing business in a state, to agree to be sued in that state's courts — even if the lawsuit has nothing to do with that state.