Ford Motor Company v. Bandemer

Consolidated with:

Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
19-369	Minn.	Oct 7, 2020	Mar 25, 2021	8-0	Kagan	OT 2020

Holding: The connection between plaintiffs' product-liability claims arising from car accidents occurring in each plaintiff's state of residence and Ford's activities in those states is sufficient to support specific jurisdiction in the respective state courts, even though the automobiles involved in the accidents were manufactured and sold elsewhere.

Judgment: Affirmed, 8-0, in an opinion by Justice Kagan on March 25, 2021. Justice Alito filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. Justice Gorsuch filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Justice Thomas joined. Justice Barrett took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.

SCOTUSblog Coverage

Selling cars in a forum state "relates to" a claim involving a car sold elsewhere (Howard M. Wasserman, March 26, 2021)
Court rules against Ford Motor Company in dispute over personal jurisdiction (Howard M. Wasserman, March 25, 2021)
Argument analysis: Due process, causation and stopping points for a 1945 doctrine in a 2020 world (Howard M. Wasserman, October 9, 2020)
Case preview: Defining "relatedness" in personal jurisdiction (Howard M. Wasserman, October 6, 2020)
Justices to hear October arguments by phone (Amy Howe, September 16, 2020)
Court releases October calendar (Amy Howe, July 13, 2020)
Court releases April calendar (Amy Howe, February 21, 2020)
Justices add three new hours of argument to calendar (Amy Howe, January 17, 2020)
Relist Watch (John Elwood, January 14, 2020)

Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
09/18/2019	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 21, 2019)
09/26/2019	Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Ford Motor Company.
10/17/2019	Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 21, 2019 to November 20, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
10/17/2019	Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including November 20, 2019.
10/21/2019	Brief amici curiae of The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, et al. filed.
10/21/2019	Brief amicus curiae of The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers filed. VIDED.
11/20/2019	Brief of respondent Adam Bandemer in opposition filed.
12/04/2019	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
12/04/2019	Reply of petitioner Ford Motor Company filed.
01/13/2020	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/17/2020.
01/17/2020	Petition GRANTED. The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 19-368 is granted. The cases are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. VIDED.
01/17/2020	Because the Court has consolidated these cases for briefing and oral argument, future filings and activity in the cases will now be reflected on the docket of No. 19-368. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 19-368. Each document submitted in connection with one or more of these cases must include on its cover the case number and caption for each case in which the filing is intended to be submitted. Where a filing is submitted in fewer than all of the cases, the docket entry will reflect the case number(s) in which the filing is submitted; a document filed in all of the consolidated cases will be noted as “VIDED.”
02/21/2020	SET FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, April 27, 2020. VIDED.
02/26/2020	Record requested from the Supreme Court of Minnesota.
02/26/2020	The record received from the Supreme Court of Minnesota, the record has been electronically filed.
03/06/2020	Brief amicus curiae of DRI - The Voice Of The Defense Bar filed. VIDED.
03/09/2020	Record received from the U.S.D.C. Todd County District Court of Minnesota. (1-Box)
03/19/2020	CIRCULATED
04/03/2020	ORAL ARGUMENT POSTPONED. VIDED.
04/13/2020	Argument to be rescheduled for the October Term 2020. VIDED.
07/13/2020	SET FOR ARGUMENT on Wednesday, October 7, 2020. VIDED.
10/07/2020	Argued. For petitioner: Sean Marotta, Washington, D.C. For respondents: Deepak Gupta, Washington, D. C. VIDED.
03/25/2021	Adjudged to be AFFIRMED. Kagan, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kavanaugh, JJ., joined. Alito, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment. Gorsuch, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which Thomas, J., joined. Barrett, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of the cases. VIDED.
04/26/2021	MANDATE ISSUED.
04/26/2021	JUDGMENT ISSUED.