Professor S.I. Strong’s scholarship was recently cited by three federal district courts. Two cases – Widows Sons Grand Chapter of the Kings Guard Inc. v. Davenport, 2018 WL 9643183 (W.D.N.Y. June 13, 2018), and Buckley v. Universal Sewing Supply, Inc., 2019 WL 5260365 (M.D. Penn. Oct. 17, 2019) – cited her article, “Jurisdictional Discovery in United States Federal Courts,” 67 Washington and Lee…
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Professor Strong Cited by Third Circuit Court of Appeals
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals recently cited Professor S.I. Strong’s article, Congress and Commercial Trusts: Dealing With Diversity Jurisdiction Post-Americold, 69 Florida Law Review 1021 (2017), in its decision in GBForefront, L.P. v. Forefront Management Group, LLP, 888 F.3d 29 (3rd Circ. 2018). The case (and Professor Strong’s article) considered the distinction between business trusts and traditional trusts and how that distinction…
Professor Strong Publishes in Florida Law Review
The Florida Law Review recently published a new article by Professor S.I. Strong. “Congress and Commercial Trusts: Dealing With Diversity Jurisdiction Post-Americold,” 69 Florida Law Review 1021 (2017), considers the United States Supreme Court opinion in Americold Realty Trust v. ConAgra Foods, Inc. and calls for a Congressional override so that commercial trusts – which operate domestically as the functional equivalents of corporations -…