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John Roberts: “We allow state courts in a particular state to bring litigation that affects that, whether it's a mass tort…”

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Chief Justice Roberts Questions If Case On Emissions Should Be Settled In State Court

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Sorry, Chief. There are a lot of familiar situations where conduct outside of the state has broad effects among other states and all that. And yet We allow state courts in a particular state to bring litigation that affects that, whether it's a mass tort sort of thing or maybe complaints about operations of the Internet. I guess I'm not quite sure what makes this situation different from those, all those other ones where we've allowed them to proceed in state court. Let me put it this way. (00:12–00:24)

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Asserts that state courts can litigate cases affecting multiple states, including mass torts and Internet operations.

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