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A recent federal court decision marks an important win for automotive suppliers in the ongoing debate over what constitutes a valid requirements contract under Michigan law following the Michigan Supreme Court’s decision in...more
Amid increasing pressure on supply chains across the globe, multiple recent court opinions have disrupted the law of requirements contracts. These decisions are critical as requirements contracts are common features across...more
Foley & Lardner announced the 2024 installment of its Auto Trends series—A Year in Review: Updates, Trends and the Road Ahead. This series delves deep into the transformative forces shaping the automotive world by providing...more
Automobiles may be the most complex, essential and widely used consumer products in the world and every year they incorporate increasingly advanced technology into nearly every component and function. The advancing...more
The Supreme Court’s recent opinion regarding its specific personal jurisdiction framework could have far-ranging implications for parties objecting to a lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds....more
We recently covered the United States Supreme Court’s troubling decision in Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, 141 S. Ct. 1017 (2021), which has broadened the reach of specific personal jurisdiction...more
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, 141 S. Ct. 1017 (2021), is the latest entry in the Court’s rulings on personal jurisdiction, and may force lower courts to...more
The Supreme Court’s latest foray into personal jurisdiction – Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court – seems to raise more questions than answers regarding the contours of specific jurisdiction. A curious...more
Defendants and lower courts hoping for clarity about personal jurisdiction were disappointed by the U.S. Supreme Court last month. Our Products Liability and Litigation Groups examine a new decision whose ambiguity could...more
Over the last few years, the Supreme Court has had a reputation as very pro-business. Late last month, however, the Court handed consumers a rare win related to personal jurisdiction. ...more
The Supreme Court's recent decision in Ford is sure to be framed by some as expanding—perhaps quite significantly—the availability of specific personal jurisdiction under the Due Process Clause. But the decision should not be...more
Nation’s highest court rejects narrow causation test for specific jurisdiction and affirms requirement that forum contacts “relate to” the claim. In the 2017 case Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court, the United...more
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct. held that a state has specific personal jurisdiction over out-of-state mega corporations that advertise, sell, and service their...more
What does the U.S. Supreme Court’s March 25, 2021 decision regarding personal jurisdiction in the Ford cases mean for litigants and litigation across the country? In Part 4 of their series on the changing landscape of general...more
In a much-anticipated decision issued on March 25, 2021, the United States Supreme Court tackled when companies can be sued outside their “home” state. Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eight Judicial District Court, 592 U.S. ___...more
All legal practitioners should be familiar with the concept of personal jurisdiction and its two subsets: general jurisdiction and specific jurisdiction; both of which are juxtaposed with the inalienable Due Process Clause...more
In This Issue. President Biden signed a bill extending the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) through May 31, 2021; the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced the rescission...more
A driver bought a used Ford Crown Victoria in Minnesota. Later, while driving on a rural road with a friend in the passenger seat, he collided with a snow plow. The car landed in a ditch, and its passenger-side air bag did...more
The U.S. Supreme Court on March 25, 2021, ruled in an 8-0 decision that the connection between the plaintiffs' claims and Ford Motor Co.'s activities in the forum states supported the exercise of specific jurisdiction over...more
For the seventh time in eleven years, the U.S. Supreme Court has curtailed the Constitutional concept of in personam jurisdiction. Superficially, Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court appears to be a...more
On March 25, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, revisiting the issue of due process limitations on the exercise of personal jurisdiction, most recently addressed by the...more
The Supreme Court of the United States recently affirmed two state court judgments that had permitted plaintiffs to assert jurisdiction over Ford Motor Company for injuries stemming from allegedly-defective cars. In an 8-0...more
In a much-anticipated U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued on March 25, the Court unanimously rejected Ford Motor Company’s argument that it could not be subject to personal jurisdiction in products liability actions filed in the...more
In Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court and Ford Motor Co. v. Bandemer, issued Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court rejected Ford Motor Company’s challenge to two state courts’ assertion of specific...more
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an important decision impacting personal jurisdiction Thursday in Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court et. al. and Ford Motor Co. v. Adam Bandemer, a pair of cases about...more