Transportation Cases To Watch In 2021

Grant Esposito and Brian Matsui spoke to Law360 about a pair of cases examining whether Ford Motor Co. can be sued in Montana and Minnesota over accidents involving used cars with purportedly defective tires or airbags for an article covering the court battles that transportation attorneys are watching in 2021.

"At minimum, the Ford cases show that the Supreme Court remains interested in policing expansive state court exercises of personal jurisdiction, particularly when lower courts subject nonresidents to specific personal jurisdiction where they have little, if any, suit-related connections to the forum," Grant said. "Over the past decade, the Supreme Court has reviewed case after case - reversing the lower court every time in unanimous or near-unanimous decisions."