Matthew Goodin

The Supreme Court’s February 20, 2026, decision in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump upended the legal basis for billions of dollars in tariffs on imports imposed by the Trump administration. The Court held that the...more On June 27, 2023, the Supreme Court in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 600 U.S. ___ (2023) substantially broadened (at least temporarily) the bases for general personal jurisdiction over out-of-state corporations in...more In Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Sup. Ct. of Calif., 2017 WL 2621322 (2017), the U.S. Supreme Court continued its push against forum shopping by holding that California state courts do not have specific personal jurisdiction...more The U.S. Supreme Court in BNSF Railway Co. v. Tyrrell, 2017 WL 2322834 (2017) made it harder for plaintiffs to sue in states where their alleged injury did not occur by reversing the Montana Supreme Court’s attempt to assert...more