Baker v. Estridge

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• acknowledging that a majority of courts have applied \the plain language of the statute to allow removal when none of the forum defendants have been served\
• finding that pre-service removal by a lone forum defendant would “essentially render the forum-defendant rule a nullity”
• acknowledging that a majority of courts have applied “the plain language of the statute to allow removal when none of the forum defendants have been served”
• noting that \there is a split in authority on the issue\
• noting that allowing a forum defendant to remove prior to being served would result in the elimination of the forum defendant rule in Illinois because a party could not accomplish instantaneous service of a summons on a defendant
• noting that “there is a split in authority on the issue”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).