Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. v. McCall, No. 21-926 Question Presented Whether an out-of-state corporate defendant’s registration to do business in a State  should be deemed consent to that State’s general jurisdiction. Case Background Imposing limits on the ability of state and federal courts to assert jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants is fundamental to due process—what […]

The Atlantic Legal Foundation has submitted an amicus brief supporting the certiorari petition in John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy, Inc. v. Tony Evers, Governor of Wisconsin, No. 21-388. The question presented —the proper First Amendment test for scrutinizing government officials’ selective exclusion of journalists from press conferences and briefings—goes to the heart of the

I today filed on behalf of the Atlantic Legal Foundation and the Cato Institute a petition-stage amicus brief supporting the Petitioner in  Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, No. 21-86.  Ilya Shapiro,  Vice President & Director of the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, joined me on the brief as co-counsel. The

Personal injury lawyers have been filing thousands of lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson, alleging that its cosmetic talc products, such as Johnson’s Baby Powder, contain asbestos and cause ovarian cancer in women. In one of the most highly publicized talc suits, Ingham v. Johnson & Johnson, the notoriously plaintiff-friendly City of St. Louis state circuit court