The modern mass tort, where thousands of personal injury cases are transferred to a single court for coordinated management, has evolved over the past two decades after courts concluded.
For over a month now, the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria has been on strike. This has caused a complete closure of all courts throughout the country.
The Supreme Court s recent decision in
Ford Motor Co. v. Montana
Eighth Judicial District Court et al. bucks the Court s
recent trend of reversing lower courts approaches to personal
jurisdiction. The Court held that Ford s contacts with the
forum states sufficed to support specific personal jurisdiction in
those states courts over product liability suits brought by
residents of those states stemming from car accidents in the
states. Although Ford did not sell the specific vehicles involved
in the accidents to purchasers in the forum states, it was enough,
according to the Court, that Ford s forum contacts related to the plaintiffs claims under the
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Several months ago, we wrote about an appeal that had just been decided by the
Pennsylvania Superior Court. We advised employers to consider
moving away from no-hire agreements in favor of nonsolicitation and
noncompete agreements. Now, for the first time, the Pennsylvania
Supreme Court has addressed the issue of no-hire agreements, and it
has confirmed our previous advice.
As we previously wrote, the case involved a dispute that arose
when a third-party logistics provider hired four employees of a
shipper with whom it had a services contract. The contract