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2026, Barry Barnett

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Supreme Court Confirms That Power to Reach Out-of-Staters Turns on What They Did

By Barry Barnett on February 25, 2014

The U.S. Supreme Court today held that state and federal courts sitting in State A lack the power to compel someone who resides outside of State A to answer a lawsuit in State A unless the out-of-stater did something that caused harm in State A. Hurting a person who lives in State A won't do it. You pretty…

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Quote of the Day: Frank Easterbrook

By Barry Barnett on August 2, 2010

Fusion was not deceived, hornswoggled, misled, duped, hoodwinked, bamboozled, or snookered.

Fusion Capital Fund II, LLC v. Ham, No. 09-3723, slip op. at 5 (7th Cir. Aug. 2, 2010) (Easterbrook, C.J.) (applying Nevada law and explaining that Fusion couldn't recover attorneys' fees owing by a corporate "husk without any corn inside" from the husk's…

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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