Illinois v. SDS West Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where 250 consumers were directly injured, “[a]lthough the number of persons directly harmed may be small relative to Illinois’ population, the indirect benefits of barring unscrupulous companies from soliciting further business accrues to the 10 population at large”
• considering lawsuit brought under state consumer protection statute, holding that “securing an honest marketplace” is “a well-established quasi-sovereign interest”; collecting cases
• “Illinois seeks to exclude a company engaged in allegedly fraudulent activities from soliciting business within its domain. This implicates a well-established quasi-sovereign interest: securing an honest marketplace.”
• relief inuring to the state “qualifies as a ‘substantial interest’ sufficient to render [the state] the real party in interest regardless of its concurrent and subsidiary pursuit of relief on behalf of certain individual citizens”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).