Eric B. Wolff Partner

The U.S. Supreme Court has held—by a 5-4 margin—that it did not violate due process for a Pennsylvania court to exercise jurisdiction over an asbestos case with no connection to Pennsylvania because of a unique Pennsylvania foreign corporation registration statute that requires consent to general jurisdiction to do business in the state.

The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted review of a case taking direct aim at “overregulation” by federal administrative agencies. Any client that routinely deals with federal administrative agencies—especially those who have experienced administrative overreach—should pay attention and consider weighing in.

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s stay of a temporary injunction in NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton, a closely watched case involving a novel Texas law purporting to bar “social media platforms” from engaging in “viewpoint” discrimination.

Who are you as a writer? Who are you trying to be? Do you even know if you are trying to be something? If you are like me, you probably began your path as a lawyer consciously or unconsciously adopting styles and personas from those around you, or from long-gone writers in case books.

There is a Monkey’s Paw quality in modern technology. For example, we get on some social network app and for a brief period feel like we’ve reinvigorated friendships, made happy new connections, did some gratifying stalking—then a year later, it feels like we’re constantly confirming that everyone has better bodies, dinners, mates, vacations, jobs, children, and pets than we do, and come about mid-February in the lower-Alaska of Puget Sound you stare at the crusted ceiling of your bedroom for disturbingly long periods every dark morning until your (actually quite excellent) dog enters and nudges you out of canine concern that you won’t be feeding her or going to work like a responsible adult (this is all hypothetical).