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“Here, the communications between Ms. Carter and Wake Forest are more aptly characterized as isolated or attenuated, and are insufficient to give rise to jurisdiction,” Justice Cleo E. Powell said in the May 9 opinion.        

UTP—represented by White & Case; Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan; and Kohn, Swift & Graf—is seeking more than $150 million in damages against Pratt.        

“A district court has broad discretion and inherent authority to manage its docket. That’s what it did here, much to the apparent dismay of the Fifth Circuit,” U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman said.        

“I have known Chris for almost 50 years and he was a truly wonderful person, with a great sense of humor and an amazing intellect,” Chemerinsky, who also graduated from Harvard Law in 1978 where he first met Edley, told Law.com Saturday.        

The guidance mirrors the recent, broader impulse among U.S. prosecutors and regulatory agencies to extend application of U.S. law to foreign persons and entities, even when those persons and entities have only threadbare connections to the U.S.