Nerve Center Test Gets First Post-SCOTUS Application

The Legal Intelligencer reports on a recent ruling that GlaxoSmithKline is a citizen of Pennsylvania (where it has its corporate headquarters), preventing removal of a products liability case to federal court.  This marks a change from the pre-Hertz decisions where courts in circuits that did not apply the nerve center test would hold that such companies are citizens of a state in which most major manufacturing takes place.

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