For a corporation, the U.S. Supreme Court's axiom may soon be: Home is where the headquarters is. Oral arguments heard Tuesday raise a seemingly simple but vexing question crucial for corporations: For purposes of diversity jurisdiction, where is a company's principal place of business? The answer will be crucial in determining whether a corporation can be sued in federal court or in plaintiff-friendly state courts.
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Justices sympathetic to applying headquarters standard to corporate jurisdiction
The National Law Journal
November 10, 2009
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