Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether virtual contacts can establish specific personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant under the effects-based test of Calder v. Jones
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTION PRESENTED Whether, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, virtual contacts can establish specific personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant under the effects-based test of Calder v. Jones, 465 U.S. 783, 788-89 (1984), where the relevant online activity is equally accessible nationwide but its content focuses on the forum state and the tortfeasor has knowingly caused the plaintiff to suffer reputational and emotional harm in the forum state, a question left open by this Court’s decision in Walden v. Fiore, 571 U.S. 277, 290 n.9 (2014). (i)
2020-04-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/1/2020.
2020-04-09
Reply of petitioner K.G.S., Individually and As Guardian and Next Friend of Baby Doe filed. (Distributed)
2020-03-31
Motion to delay distribution of the petition for a writ certiorari until April 15, 2020, granted.
2020-03-27
Motion of petitioner to delay distribution of the petition for a writ of certiorari under Rule 15.5 from April 8, 2020 to April 15, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-03-23
Brief of respondent Facebook, Inc. in opposition filed.
2020-02-14
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including March 23, 2020.
2020-02-12
Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 21, 2020 to March 23, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-01-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 21, 2020)
2019-11-05
Application (19A483) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until January 17, 2020.
2019-10-31
Application (19A483) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 21, 2019 to January 17, 2020, submitted to Justice Thomas.