Insurance Row Over Biometric Privacy Suit Kept in Federal Court

A logistics company won its bid to transfer its insurer’s state court suit to federal court due to a loophole in the law that typically bars in-state defendants from fleeing to federal court.

“Allowing an in-state defendant to remove a case before service of process — but not after service of process — may not seem like the most sensible line to draw. But Congress holds the pen, and draws the lines,” Judge Steven Seeger for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois wrote in a Monday order denying the insurer’s motion to remand the case to ...