Barton v. Town of Middleburg

How courts have described this case

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• holding personal jurisdiction defense forfeited by engaging in motion practice and pretrial discovery
• “[A] party may forfeit a right or defense by actively litigating other issues and forgoing the opportunity to litigate that right or defense.”
• “Rule 37(b) allows a district court ‘broad discretion in fashioning an appropriate sanction’ to address discovery-related abuses.” (quoting Residential Funding Corp. v. DeGeorge Fin. Corp., 306 F.3d 99, 101 (2d Cir. 2002))
• unlike subject matter jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction can be “purposely waived or inadvertently forfeited”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).