Our Litigator of the Week is Sidley Austin partner Virginia Seitz for her win on behalf of Bayer Corp. before the Illinois Supreme Court in high-stakes litigation involving the Essure birth control device.

In a decision with implications for other mass tort litigation—especially suits filed in plaintiff-friendly  Madison County, Illinois—the state high court reversed both the appellate and circuit court decisions and dismissed the claims by out-of-state plaintiffs, ruling that they “identified no jurisdictionally relevant links between their claims and Illinois.”

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