By: Derek Hawkins//June 25, 2018//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: John Crane, Inc. v. Shein Law Center, LTD et al.
Case No.: 17-1809; 17-1926; 17-1814
Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and KANNE and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Personal Jurisdiction
John Crane, Inc., as a manufacturer of products containing asbestos, has been sued many times for injuries caused by exposure to asbestos. Now it claims some of those suits were part of a conspiracy to defraud the company. It filed lawsuits in the Northern District of Illinois against two law firms and their lawyers who brought some of those injury suits. Because the Northern District lacked personal jurisdiction over the defendants, we affirm the dismissal of the lawsuits.
Affirmed