Seventh Circuit· 12/1/1993

Continental Bank, N.A. v. Meyer

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10 F.3d 1293
1993 WL 492627

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holding that personal jurisdiction defense, even though raised in the answer sufficiently to avoid waiver under Rule 12(h
holding that personal jurisdiction defense, even though raised in the answer sufficiently to avoid waiver under Rule 12(h
concluding that the defendants’ active participation in the litigation for two-and-a-half years by participating in discovery and motions practice constituted a waiver of the personal jurisdiction defense.
holding that the defendants waived their personal jurisdiction defense where they engaged in lengthy discovery and filed numerous motions over the course of two-and-a-half years without actively contesting personal jurisdiction
holding that while defendants pled lack of jurisdiction in their answer, defendants had waived the defense by “fully participa[ting] in litigation of the merits for over two-and-a-half years without actively contesting personal jurisdiction.”
finding that despite raising the defense in its answer, the defendant consented to the court's jurisdiction by failing to argue the point until summary judgment

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Judges: Bauer, Cummings, Fairchild

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