Allstate Insurance v. Sandler

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “courts nationwide . . . regularly have rejected assertions of 18 personal jurisdiction against out-of-state law enforcement officials who have merely issued warrants and lodged their warrants in nationwide databases” (gathering cases)
• stating that “courts nationwide . . . regularly have rejected assertions of 18 personal jurisdiction against out-of-state law enforcement officials who have merely issued warrants and lodged their warrants in nationwide databases” (gathering cases)
• finding that the plaintiffs failed to make a prima facie case of jurisdiction under CPLR § 302(a)(3)(ii) because, inter alia, “[t]he Complaint . . . alleges nothing” in regard to the defendant deriving “substantial revenue from interstate or international commerce”
• denying leave to amend when plaintiff made only conclusory allegations in support of the exercise of personal jurisdiction over nondomiciliary defendant
• “[T]here is ample authority for the proposition that a municipality can be substituted as a defendant for its agencies.”
• “[A] court is free to ‘choose among threshold grounds’ for dismissing an action so long as none involve ‘a judgment on the merits.’” (quoting Sinochem Int’l Co., 549 U.S. at 431 (2007))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).