Markel v. Laden

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• holding that absent class members are not required to make a showing of personal jurisdiction
• explaining that the pre-Bristol-Myers consensus provided that “due process neither precluded nationwide or multistate class actions nor required the absent-class-member-by-absent-class-member jurisdictional inquiry”
• noting that the defendant could not produce any pre-Bristol-Myers decision holding that “in a class action where defendant is not subject to general jurisdiction, specific jurisdiction must be es- tablished not only as to the named plaintiff(s
• “Had the Supreme Court truly sought to bar certification of nationwide or multistate class actions on due process grounds in all but the one or two States where the defendant is subject to general jurisdiction, it [is] implausible that it would have done so obliquely, in a mass action... .”

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