Massachusetts federal and state courts issued several important product liability decisions in 2023. Nutter’s Product Liability practice group reviewed these cases and report on their significant holdings as follows ...more
1/29/2024
/ Class Action ,
Failure To Warn ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Hazardous Substances ,
Labeling ,
Magnuson-Moss Act ,
Manufacturers ,
Mitsubishi ,
Personal Jurisdiction ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Preemption ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Putative Class Actions ,
RJ Reynolds ,
Warning Labels
On June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Pennsylvania law that requires companies to consent to being sued in its state courts as a condition of registering to do business there. In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern, the Court...more
6/29/2023
/ Business Litigation ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Due Process ,
General Jurisdiction ,
Mallory v Norfolk Southern Railway Co ,
Out-of-State Companies ,
Personal Jurisdiction ,
Registration Requirement ,
SCOTUS ,
State of Incorporation ,
Statutory Interpretation
Massachusetts federal and state courts issued a number of important product liability decisions in 2020. These involved a number of rulings on issues surrounding personal jurisdiction. The Product Liability practice group at...more