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K. G. S., Individually and as Guardian and Next Friend of Baby Doe, a Minor Child v. Facebook, Inc.
Paid petition · Supreme Court of Alabama, No. 1170244 · judgment June 28, 2019
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
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)
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Ruthanne Mary Deutsch
Deutsch Hunt, PLLC
For respondent
Mitchell Pearsall Reich
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Proceedings
- May 04 2020Petition DENIED.
- Apr 15 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/1/2020.
- Apr 09 2020Reply of petitioner K.G.S., Individually and As Guardian and Next Friend of Baby Doe filed. (Distributed)
- Mar 31 2020Motion to delay distribution of the petition for a writ certiorari until April 15, 2020, granted.
- Mar 27 2020Motion 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.
- Mar 23 2020Brief of respondent Facebook, Inc. in opposition filed.
- Feb 14 2020Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including March 23, 2020.
- Feb 12 2020Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 21, 2020 to March 23, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jan 17 2020Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 21, 2020)
- Nov 05 2019Application (19A483) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until January 17, 2020.
- Oct 31 2019Application (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.