For the second time this month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of nationwide corporations that are seeking to limit the number of jurisdictions where they can be sued.
Ruling in BNSF Railway v. Tyrrell, the court said Monday that “the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause does not permit a state to hale an out-of-state corporation before its courts when the corporation is not ‘at home’ in the state and the episode-in-suit occurred elsewhere.” New Justice Neil Gorsuch, who participated in the April 25 argument in the case, voted with the majority – the first full opinion in which he voted.
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