Justices Urged To Curb Post-Mallory Forum Shopping

By Linda Chiem · April 6, 2026, 6:01 PM EDT

Rail industry and legal advocates contend the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 Mallory ruling unleashed a wave of forum-shopping by plaintiffs lawyers using states' business-registration laws to sue out-of-state companies, and the...

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BNSF Railway Company, Petitioner v. Tanner Lynn

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Supreme Court

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Date Filed

March 04, 2026

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