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Illinois Law Subjects Out-of-State Companies to General Personal Jurisdiction

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Amended Illinois Senate Bill 328, which passed both chambers of the Illinois legislature on 1 June 2025, was officially signed into law by Governor Jay Robert “JB” Pritzker on 15 August 2025 as Public Act 104-0352. The...more

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What Businesses Formed Outside Illinois Need to Know About SB 328

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Last week, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed Illinois Senate Bill 328 (“SB 328”) into law, marking a significant expansion of the jurisdictional reach of Illinois courts in the realm of toxic tort litigation. The law...more

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Update on Illinois Tort Reform - UPDATED August 19, 2025.

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On August 15, 2025, Governor Pritzker signed Senate Bill 328 into law, effective immediately. The bill makes significant changes to the law governing jurisdiction in Illinois, namely changing Illinois from a specific...more

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Norfolk Southern Railway Co., United States Government Urge Supreme Court of the United States to Shorten the Reach of...

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Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., docket number 21-1168 originating from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, has far-reaching implications which could impinge on the booming forum-shopping industry. Any defendant who...more

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Toxic Tort Monitor: Pennsylvania Federal Court Holds Statutory Scheme Requiring Out-Of-State Corporations To Register To Do...

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The Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Sullivan v. A. W. Chesterton, Inc., et al., No. 18-3622 (E.D. Pa. June 6, 2019), grappled with the constitutionality of the Pennsylvania statutes, 15 Pa.C.S. § 411 and 42 Pa.C.S. §...more

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Unsettled Jurisdiction: Does a Foreign Corp. Consent To Be Sued in Pa. When It Registers To Do Business in State?

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Two Pennsylvania courts recently issued significant, and contradictory, opinions regarding general jurisdiction over foreign corporations. ...more

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Missouri Supreme Court Talc Decision Alters Landscape

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On March 6, the Missouri Supreme Court declined to review the intermediate appellate court’s decision in Fox v. Johnson & Johnson, which vacated a $72 million talc verdict awarded in St. Louis City Court. ...more

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