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The Essentially-At-Home Requirement For General Jurisdiction: Some Embarrassing Cases, David Crump
The Essentially-At-Home Requirement For General Jurisdiction: Some Embarrassing Cases, David Crump
Catholic University Law Review
In Daimler AG v. Baumann, the Supreme Court held that general jurisdiction does not exist unless the defendant is “essentially at home” in the forum. It offered two examples of places fitting this description but gave little further guidance or justification. A metaphor, such as essentially at home, is a bad way to express a legal standards, because the essence of a metaphor is that it substitutes one reality for another, creating a deliberate confusion. The Court also equated general jurisdiction with what it called all-purpose jurisdiction, which is wrong because it is easy to pose cases in which general …