supreme-court-546279_960_720By: Michael L. DeMarino and Gerald L. Maatman, Jr.

Seyfarth Synopsis:  In Bristol-Myers Squibb Company v. Superior Court of California, et al., No. 16-466 (U.S. June 19, 2017), the U.S. Supreme Court articulated the narrow circumstances under which specific jurisdiction will lie when it rejected the California Supreme Court’s “sliding scale” approach to evaluating specific jurisdiction. The decision
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