Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! In today’s “Listen and Learn” episode, we look at the various ways of establishing whether a court has jurisdiction over the parties in a lawsuit.
In this episode we discuss:
- Establishing personal jurisdiction through traditional bases
- The difference between “domicile” and “presence”
- Long-arm statutes and ties to the forum state
- The two parts of the constitutional analysis
- General jurisdiction and specific jurisdiction
- Analyzing two hypos from previous California bar exams
- Structuring an answer to a personal jurisdiction question
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Resources:
- “Listen and Learn” series
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, February 2004
- California Bar Examination – Essay Questions and Selected Answers, July 2016
- Podcast Episode 218: Listen and Learn – Supplemental Jurisdiction (Civ Pro)
- Podcast Episode 263: Listen and Learn – Subject Matter Jurisdiction
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