A divided (ideologically bipartisan) Supreme Court ruled that a state law, allowing any company doing business in the state to be sued there – even if the corporation is not headquartered there and the alleged conduct giving rise to the lawsuit occurred elsewhere, did not violate the due-process clause. As a result of this opinion, litigants may now bring suit against out-of-state companies in the friendliest state in which the company is registered to do business, even if that jurisdiction has no connection to the events underlying the lawsuit.     

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