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Marilyn Coudrain, as Administrator of the Estate of Ellen Smith, Deceased, et al. v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al.

Paid petition · Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, No. 1-25-0614 · judgment February 20, 2026


1%
estimated cert probability
(petition-stage, structural)
Rule 10: circuit split argued

Well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Whether, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Judicial Dist. Court, 592 U. S. 351 (2021), a State may exercise specific personal jurisdiction over nonresident corporate defendants in product-liability and failure-to-warn actions brought by nonresident plaintiffs when the defendants purposefully used the forum State to package, label, market, and distribute the allegedly defective product nationwide, although the plaintiffs were injured outside the forum State.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
John Anthony Bruegger
Parafinczuk Wolf, P.A.

For respondent
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Case

Subject area
Due Process (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 13 2026
    Motion (26M24) Granted.
  2. Sep 23 2026
    Motion (26M24) DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/9/2026.
  3. Aug 25 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 13, 2026)
  4. Aug 25 2026
    Motion (26M24) of petitioner for leave to file a petition for a writ of certiorari with the supplemental appendix under seal filed.