May 04, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear BNSF Railway Co.'s challenge to a Minnesota business-registration law that the rail giant contends was improperly invoked to haul it into state court by an out-of-state plaintiff over alleged out-of-state harms.
April 06, 2026
Rail industry and legal advocates contend the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 Mallory ruling unleashed a wave of forum-shopping by plaintiffs lawyers using states' business-registration laws to sue out-of-state companies, and the justices must intervene and stop litigants from unconstitutionally interfering with interstate commerce.