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The U.S. Supreme Court has issued its decision in the closely watched personal jurisdiction case Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. It holds that the Pennsylvania can require out-of-state corporations to consent to general personal jurisdiction.
In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., Robert Mallory (a Virginia resident) sued his former employer, Norfolk Southern (a Virginia-based railroad), over his alleged exposure to.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court resurrected the consent-by-registration theory of personal jurisdiction. Under the Court's decision in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., a.