Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Francisco

Fossil fuel companies filed a petition for review in the California Supreme Court requesting that the court review the trial court’s determination that it had personal jurisdiction over the defendants. The defendants argued that the case presented “an important legal question concerning the limits of a court’s specific personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant for a claim allegedly caused in overwhelming part by conduct outside of the forum State.” An intermediate appellate court had denied the defendants’ petition for writ of mandate.