April 20, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied bids by the federal government and nearly 40 states to join in oral argument over jurisdiction questions in a pair of cases alleging defects in Ford Motor Co. vehicles led to accidents in Montana and Minnesota.
April 02, 2020
Major manufacturers like Ford can't downplay their business ties in any given state to tilt the scales of personal jurisdiction in their favor and avoid liability for accident claims in those states, law professors told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday.
March 31, 2020
Montana and Minnesota rightly allowed injured residents to sue Ford in state court and the automaker's attempt to warp the standard for exercising specific personal jurisdiction over product liability cases should be rejected, accident victims told the U.S. Supreme Court Monday.
March 05, 2020
Product manufacturers told the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday that Ford was deprived of due process when Montana's and Minnesota's justices allowed product defect and negligence suits to advance in their states despite a lack of connections between Ford's alleged conduct and the claims at issue.
February 28, 2020
Ford told the U.S. Supreme Court Friday that Montana's and Minnesota's justices have enabled a "jurisdictional free for all" by allowing product defect and negligence suits to advance in their states despite a lack of connections between Ford's alleged conduct and the claims at issue.
January 17, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Ford's challenge to two "capacious" decisions that allowed plaintiffs to bring defect suits in states where the auto giant says it does not have a sufficient connection.