In a highly anticipated decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court closed out 2021 by striking down Pennsylvania’s consent-by-registration statutory scheme that held that an out-of-state.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court closed out 2021 by striking down Pennsylvania’s consent-by-registration statutory scheme that held that an out-of-state business consented to general personal jurisdiction in Pennsylvania simply by registering to do business in the state
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court closed out 2021 by striking down Pennsylvania’s consent-by-registration statutory scheme that held that an out-of-state business consented to general personal jurisdiction in Pennsylvania simply by registering to do business in the state
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The debate as to whether companies registered to do business in Pennsylvania have consented to general personal jurisdiction continues, and the issue is finally before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. As we have discussed in prior alerts, the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s consent-by-registration statutory framework
1 has been a hot-button issue since the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2014 decision in
Daimler AG v. Bauman, which circumscribed general personal jurisdiction to companies “essentially at home” in the forum state.
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Although the issue was recently considered by the Pennsylvania Superior Court en banc in