Oberembt v. Bankers Life Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a party “waived [its] defense” of lack of personal jurisdiction and “voluntarily submitted to the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court” by raising only merits contentions in the circuit court and waiting until appeal to object to personal jurisdiction
• ‘‘Once a party speaks to the merits of a case, the individual has made a voluntary appearance, submitting himself to the jurisdiction of the court in all subsequent proceedings.”
• “Once a party speaks to the merits of a case, the [party] has made ‘a voluntary appearance, submitting [it]self to the jurisdiction of the court for all subsequent proceedings.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).