Minemyer v. R-Boc Representatives, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JEFFREY COLE, United States Magistrate Judge.

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Following five years of litigation, a two-week trial, and a jury decision against him, one of the defendants, Timothy Grimsley, has brought a motion challenging the court’s personal jurisdiction over him. He raised the personal jurisdiction issue in June of 2007—less than three months after the complaint was filed—before Judge Coar, to whom the ease was originally assigned. Judge Coar denied the motion to dismiss under Illinois’ fiduciary shield doctrine and the due process clause. The “fiduciary shield doctrine” as…