Legal Opinion
Ruff v. SPLICE, INC.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided February 26, 2010No. 1-09-2093PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lavin
In this case, we are asked to reinstate a default judgment arising out of an employment contract that took a serpentine path from a California Labor Commissioner to the superior court of California to the clerk of the circuit court of Cook County, only to be vacated by a trial judge who determined that the California court lacked subject matter jurisdiction because the contract in question contained an arbitration clause. We affirm the decision of the trial court.
BACKGROUND
On April 2, 2007, Gregory Ruff and Splice, Inc. (Splice), entered into an employment contract under which Ruff was to…
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