An attorney for a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary being sued over its pelvic mesh products told the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday that recent case law from the U.S. Supreme Court makes clear that Pennsylvania courts have no business handling lawsuits from out-of-state plaintiffs when neither the defendant nor the conduct underlying the claims are connected to the state, which has been a jurisdiction of choice for plaintiffs.

The justices heard oral arguments in the closely watched case of Hammons v. Ethicon, which is expected to provide broad guidance to lower courts grappling with the ramifications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California.

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