[Lazamataz]

Actually the court found it had jurisdiction due to the substantial federal military facilities in California

Neat, that means that California has jurisdiction over military bases in Illinois.

Ass clowns.

[hankbrown]

No, not quite. In order to have jurisdiction in a particular federal court, the court must find that the defendant has sufficient "minimum contacts" with the jurisdiction such that the court can proceed without violating due process of the defendant. For instance, if I live in New Jersey and have never been in California in my life, have never bought anything from a California store, and have never conducted business there, likely the courts could not get jurisdiction over me. But they found that the military bases there were sufficient to find that Rumsfield (as the embodiment of the military) did business there. Short analysis of a complex question. Can't say they were wrong in this part of the decision.

[demlosers]

Neat, that means that California has jurisdiction over military bases in Illinois.

It may mean that they have jurisdiction over Sony corp in bum-f***k Egypt as long as they have a shack in Kalifornia.

Yeah Right...