On August 15, 2025, Governor Pritzker signed Senate Bill 328 into law, amending Illinois's long-arm statute, Section 2-209(b), and the Illinois Business Corporation Act of 1983....more
The Situation: Defendants sued in state court are making use of a procedural technique known as "snap removal" to get otherwise non-removable cases into federal court. Snap removal takes advantage of the plain language of the...more
The United States Supreme Court has issued an important decision rejecting California's effort to assert personal jurisdiction over nonresident corporations and curtailing the plaintiff's bar's efforts at forum shopping....more