On July 1, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized a new rule which prohibits businesses from making unqualified claims that a product is made in the U.S. unless:
In a product liability case where a manufacturer is defending a claim that a product it designed was defective and the cause of a plaintiff's injury, the manufacturer may attempt to introduce evidence at.
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
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
United States Supreme Court Holds Due Process Permits Exercise
Of Specific Personal Jurisdiction Over Out-Of-State Vehicle
Manufacturer For Product Liability Claims For Harm To Forum
Residents From In-State Accidents Even Though Defendant Did Not
Design, Manufacture Or Sell Vehicles At Issue There, As
Defendant s Current In-State Advertising, Sales And Servicing
Of Same Vehicle Models Were Sufficiently Related
Contacts To Support Jurisdiction
MASSACHUSETTS
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds That In Most
Negligence Cases, Including Those With Multiple Potential Causes, But-For, Not Substantial Contributing
Factor, Is Correct Factual Causation Standard, But In Rare Cases Involving Two Independently Sufficient