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Westforth Sports, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois
Paid petition · Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, No. 1-23-1908 · judgment March 14, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allow a state to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident retail seller of legal, non-defective, easilytransportable products based on the seller’s foreseeability that some such products may, through the agency of third parties over whom the seller has no control, be transported into the forum state without any direction from the seller?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Timothy Rockwell Rudd
Braum | Rudd
For respondent
Priyanka Gupta Sen
Everytown Law
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Proceedings
- May 04 2026Petition DENIED.
- Apr 15 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/1/2026.
- Apr 10 2026Reply of petitioner Westforth Sports, Inc. filed. (Distributed)
- Mar 31 2026Brief of respondent City of Chicago, Illinois in opposition filed.
- Feb 19 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including April 3, 2026.
- Feb 17 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 4, 2026 to April 3, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Feb 02 2026Response Requested. (Due March 4, 2026)
- Jan 28 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
- Jan 21 2026Waiver of right of respondent City of Chicago, Illinois to respond filed.
- Dec 23 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 2, 2026)