Pierce v. Volkswagen of America, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• A parent corporation has no ability to protect its own interests if it is unable to be joined in a suit involving actions of its corporate subsidiary
• “Once the evidence is submitted, the court may ‘not simply rule that there is or is not enough evidence to have a trial on the issue.’ The court must decide whether it has jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).