Supreme Court hears arguments on state secrets, personal jurisdiction, preclusion

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Tuesday in the consolidated cases of General Dynamics Corp. v. United States [oral arguments transcript, PDF; JURIST report] and The Boeing Company v. United States on the ability of the government, under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause [Cornell LII backgrounder], to keep a claim against a party after invoking the state secrets privilege [JURIST news archive] and preventing that party from…