Levert v. University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign ex rel. Board of Trustees

Pursuant to these consolidated appeals, we review a judgment in which the trial court determined that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction to resolve a dispute. The trial court also implicitly granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss by transferring plaintiffs’ suit to our sister state of Illinois. In one of the appeals, we conclude that the appeal was taken from an invalid judgment and that we have no jurisdiction to review it. In the other appeal, we address whether the trial court abused its discretion in declining to exercise jurisdiction over a sister state’s university board based on…