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Ford V. Where Are We?: The Revival Of The Sliding Scale To Govern The Supreme Court's New "Relating To" Personal Jurisdiction, Zois Manaris Oct 2022

Ford V. Where Are We?: The Revival Of The Sliding Scale To Govern The Supreme Court's New "Relating To" Personal Jurisdiction, Zois Manaris

William & Mary Law Review

This Note proposes a test to govern “relating to” specific jurisdiction, a variation on a theme to those familiar with the doctrine: a “sliding scale” approach to contacts and relatedness, accompanied by a separate assessment of reasonableness factors the Supreme Court has outlined in previous cases to serve as a check on the sliding scale. Part I of this Note explains the “sliding scale” approach, its unpleasant first interaction with the Court, and its revival by the Ford majority. Part II defines this Note’s proposed test and demonstrates its consistency with Supreme Court precedent. Finally, Part III applies this Note’s …


Greening The Trust: Enforcing Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights And Duties To Combat Climate Change, Julia E. Sappey Apr 2021

Greening The Trust: Enforcing Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights And Duties To Combat Climate Change, Julia E. Sappey

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Over the last century, humans have warmed the planet by approximately 1.0°C. Pennsylvania’s average temperature has risen 1.8°F in the last hundred years, and climate scientists predict it will warm an additional 5.4°F by 2050. These rising temperatures create feedback loops, leading to warming that will eventually become irreversible. Warmer temperatures have already led to melting ice caps, rising sea levels, dangerous weather patterns, and food shortages. Human-produced greenhouse gases (GHG) are the largest contributing factor to this warming. The scientific community largely agrees that if humans do not reach carbon neutrality by 2050, damage to the climate will be …


Pereira's Aftershocks, Lonny Hoffman Oct 2019

Pereira's Aftershocks, Lonny Hoffman

William & Mary Law Review

At the end of the 2017 term, the Supreme Court decided not to stop time. Nonpermanent residents who have been placed in removal proceedings may apply for a discretionary form of relief from the Attorney General known as “cancellation of removal.” To be eligible, an applicant must show (in addition to meeting other requirements) that she has been in the United States for at least ten consecutive years. The period of continuous physical presence is interrupted when the government serves the noncitizen with a notice to appear at a removal hearing. However, in Pereira v. Sessions, the Court held that …


The Supreme Court’S Quiet Revolution: Redefining The Meaning Of Jurisdiction, Erin Morrow Hawley May 2015

The Supreme Court’S Quiet Revolution: Redefining The Meaning Of Jurisdiction, Erin Morrow Hawley

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Over the last three decades, the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts have carried out a quiet revolution in the nature and meaning of jurisdiction. Historically, federal courts generally treated procedural requirements, like filing deadlines and exhaustion prerequisites, as presumptively “jurisdictional.” In case after case, the modern Court has reversed course. The result has been an unobtrusive but seminal redefinition of what jurisdiction means to begin with: the adjudicatory authority of the federal courts. This shift is momentous, but it has been obscured by the Court’s erstwhile imposition of a clear statement requirement. For courts to find a statutory requirement jurisdictional, Congress …


Rethinking Legal Globalization: The Case Of Transnational Personal Jurisdiction, Donald Earl Childress Iii Apr 2013

Rethinking Legal Globalization: The Case Of Transnational Personal Jurisdiction, Donald Earl Childress Iii

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Under what circumstances may a United States court exercise personal jurisdiction over alien defendants? Courts and commentators have yet to offer a coherent response to this question. That is surprising given that scholars have been calling for the globalization of U.S. law since the late 1980s as part of a transnational litigation narrative.

Through doctrinal and empirical analysis, this Article argues that a U.S. court should have power to exercise personal jurisdiction over an alien defendant not served with process within a state’s borders when (1) the defendant has received constitutionally adequate notice, (2) the state has a constitutionally sufficient …


Developing A Private International Intellectual Property Law: The Demise Of Territoriality?, Graeme B. Dinwoodie Nov 2009

Developing A Private International Intellectual Property Law: The Demise Of Territoriality?, Graeme B. Dinwoodie

William & Mary Law Review

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Extraterritoriality In U.S. Patent Law, Timothy R. Holbrook May 2008

Extraterritoriality In U.S. Patent Law, Timothy R. Holbrook

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Globalization has eroded traditional territorial limits on intellectual property laws. Although this pressure was first seen in trademark and copyright law, recent court decisions have demonstrated that the territorial lines of U.S. patents are also under assault. Indeed, the Supreme Court recently considered extraterritoriality in U.S. patent law in its 2007 decision in Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp., discussed thoroughly in this Article. Courts and commentators have offered two primary approaches to deal with the issue of the extraterritorial reach of U.S. patents. First, many courts, including the Supreme Court, continue to adhere to a strict view of a patent's …


Adjudication And The Problems Of Incommensurability, Brett G. Scharffs Apr 2001

Adjudication And The Problems Of Incommensurability, Brett G. Scharffs

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Regulating Corporate Human Rights Abuses: Is Unocal The Answer?, Pia Zara Thadhani Oct 2000

Regulating Corporate Human Rights Abuses: Is Unocal The Answer?, Pia Zara Thadhani

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


On The Nature Of Federal Bankruptcy Jurisdiction: A General Statutory And Constitutional Theory, Ralph Brubaker Mar 2000

On The Nature Of Federal Bankruptcy Jurisdiction: A General Statutory And Constitutional Theory, Ralph Brubaker

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No abstract provided.


Admiralty And Federalism In The Wake Of Yamaha Motor Corp., Usa V. Calhoun: Is Yamaha A Cry By The Judiciary For Legislative Action In State Territorial Waters?, David R. Lapp Feb 2000

Admiralty And Federalism In The Wake Of Yamaha Motor Corp., Usa V. Calhoun: Is Yamaha A Cry By The Judiciary For Legislative Action In State Territorial Waters?, David R. Lapp

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No abstract provided.


Adjudication In Indian Country: The Confusing Parameters Of State, Federal, And Tribal Jurisdiction, Laurie Reynolds Jan 1997

Adjudication In Indian Country: The Confusing Parameters Of State, Federal, And Tribal Jurisdiction, Laurie Reynolds

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No abstract provided.


Defensively Invoking Treaties In American Courts - Jurisdictional Challenges Under The U.N. Drug Traficking Convention By Foreign Defendants Kidnapped Abroad By U.S. Agents, Thomas Michael Mcdonnell Jun 1996

Defensively Invoking Treaties In American Courts - Jurisdictional Challenges Under The U.N. Drug Traficking Convention By Foreign Defendants Kidnapped Abroad By U.S. Agents, Thomas Michael Mcdonnell

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No abstract provided.


A Constitutional Charge And A Comparative Vision To Substantially Expand And Subject Matter Specialize The Federal Judiciary: A Preliminary Blueprint For Remodeling Our National Houses Of Justice And Establishing A Separate System Of Federal Criminal Courts, Victor Williams Feb 1996

A Constitutional Charge And A Comparative Vision To Substantially Expand And Subject Matter Specialize The Federal Judiciary: A Preliminary Blueprint For Remodeling Our National Houses Of Justice And Establishing A Separate System Of Federal Criminal Courts, Victor Williams

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Exclusive Or Concurrent Jurisdiction Over Private Civil Rico Actions: Finding The Appropriate Reference, Kimberly O'D. Thompson Feb 1990

Exclusive Or Concurrent Jurisdiction Over Private Civil Rico Actions: Finding The Appropriate Reference, Kimberly O'D. Thompson

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No abstract provided.


Virginia's Domestic Relations Long-Arm Legislation: Does Its Reach Exceed Its Due Process Grasp?, E. Roy Hawkens Feb 1983

Virginia's Domestic Relations Long-Arm Legislation: Does Its Reach Exceed Its Due Process Grasp?, E. Roy Hawkens

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No abstract provided.


Lessons Of Lumpkin: A Review Of Recent Literature On Law, Comity, And The Impending Crisis, John Phillip Reid May 1982

Lessons Of Lumpkin: A Review Of Recent Literature On Law, Comity, And The Impending Crisis, John Phillip Reid

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Uses Of Jurisdictional Redundancy: Interest, Ideology, And Innovation, Robert M. Cover May 1981

The Uses Of Jurisdictional Redundancy: Interest, Ideology, And Innovation, Robert M. Cover

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


State Courts And Federalism In The 1980'S: Comment, Robert J. Sheran May 1981

State Courts And Federalism In The 1980'S: Comment, Robert J. Sheran

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Toward Procedural Parity In Constitutional Litigation, Burt Neuborne May 1981

Toward Procedural Parity In Constitutional Litigation, Burt Neuborne

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


State Courts And Federalism In The 1980'S: Comment, Ruggero J. Aldisert May 1981

State Courts And Federalism In The 1980'S: Comment, Ruggero J. Aldisert

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


The State Courts And Federal Constitutional Litigation, Paul M. Bator May 1981

The State Courts And Federal Constitutional Litigation, Paul M. Bator

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Uncertain Nature Of Federal Jurisdiction, Martha A. Field May 1981

The Uncertain Nature Of Federal Jurisdiction, Martha A. Field

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Trends In The Relationship Between The Federal And State Courts From The Perspective Of A State Court Judge, Sandra D. O'Connor May 1981

Trends In The Relationship Between The Federal And State Courts From The Perspective Of A State Court Judge, Sandra D. O'Connor

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Choice Of Law Process: Territorialism And Functionalism, Jeffrey M. Shaman Dec 1980

The Choice Of Law Process: Territorialism And Functionalism, Jeffrey M. Shaman

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Procedural Due Process In Quasi In Rem Actions After Shaffer V. Heitner, Karen Nelson Moore Dec 1978

Procedural Due Process In Quasi In Rem Actions After Shaffer V. Heitner, Karen Nelson Moore

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Jurisdiction Of The Fpc Over Thermal Electric Power Plants May 1977

Jurisdiction Of The Fpc Over Thermal Electric Power Plants

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Case For Certification, John A. Scanelli Mar 1971

The Case For Certification, John A. Scanelli

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Admiralty - Applicability Of The Jones Act To Foreign Seamen And Foreign Shipowners. Hellenic Lines Ltd. V. Rhoditis, 90 S. Ct. 1731 (1970), John A. Scanelli Dec 1970

Admiralty - Applicability Of The Jones Act To Foreign Seamen And Foreign Shipowners. Hellenic Lines Ltd. V. Rhoditis, 90 S. Ct. 1731 (1970), John A. Scanelli

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law - Due Process - Jurisdiction Over Alien Corporation In Products Liability Action. Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd. V. Hollingsworth, 417 F.2d 231 (9th Cir. 1969), Richard B. Blackwell May 1970

Constitutional Law - Due Process - Jurisdiction Over Alien Corporation In Products Liability Action. Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd. V. Hollingsworth, 417 F.2d 231 (9th Cir. 1969), Richard B. Blackwell

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.