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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

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Instead, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld “general jurisdiction” over Cooper on the ground that Cooper, by registering as a foreign corporation in Georgia, had consented to suit in Georgia as a condition of doing business in the state. The petition in Cooper was filed by the defendant in a lawsuit resisting personal jurisdiction.

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Supreme indifference: What the Texas case signals about the court’s treatment of abortion

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Since the decision of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey in 1992, the hallmark of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence has been an effort to take the abortion issue seriously. Share Mary Ziegler is a law professor at Florida State University and the author of Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v.