Sauder v. Rayman

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[florum selection clauses are permissive rather than mandatory where they lack words of exclusivity”
• holding that a forum selection clause in a contract is said to be a \mandatory forum selection clause\ if it states that any litigation must, or shall, be initiated in a specified forum
• holding “the parties submit” language in a forum selection clause to be permissive
• holding “the parties submit” language in a forum selection clause to be permissive
• language providing that claims \may be heard and determined in any\ Chicago federal court held permissive
• “While abatement requires complete identity of parties and causes of action, ... a stay should require substantial similarity of parties and actions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).