When a company is served with a lawsuit, most corporate lawyers charged with defending the company immediately ask one question: “Does this plaintiff have the right to sue in this jurisdiction?”
The reason many corporate attorneys automatically question a court’s jurisdiction in a case is because so many lawsuits are now filed in state courts that are barely, if at all, related to the company’s business and operations. The debate over which courts have jurisdiction over certain cases has raged for centuries, but the topic has become more alarming in recent decades as many state and federal courts has adopted much broader standards for acquiring jurisdiction.
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