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https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_126593b4-e17d-11ee-97f0- 87b9bc77eccd.html

(The Center Square) – A state law that limits where lawsuits challenging
state laws can be filed has been ruled unconstitutional as applied to a
case from Madison County.

Approved last year and signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, House Bill 3062 was opposed by Republicans who said limiting where people can sue the state to
just two of the state’s 102 counties is “tyrannical.” The law limits where people can sue the state alleging constitutional violations from state
laws or executive orders to just Cook and Sangamon counties.

In Piasa Armory’s challenge to the state’s firearm industry liability law
in November, the state motioned to move the case to Sangamon County.
Earlier this month, a Madison County judge found the court venue limit law
as applied in the case is unconstitutional.

The law “does violate due process, as applied to persons who reside or
were injured outside of Cook or Sangamon County,” Madison County Judge
Ronald Forest, Jr. wrote. “The motion to transfer is Denied, as [the law]
is unconstitutional, as Defendant seeks to apply it.”

In its motion to move the case to Sangamon County, the state said the
litigants can remote in with video conferencing. Forest said the state
could also video conference into Madison County.

“The Court is aware that Supreme Court Rule … allows broad use of video conference or telephone at an evidentiary hearing or trial ‘for good cause shown and upon appropriate safeguards’ or even as of right,” Forest wrote. “However, the availability of remote proceedings does not bolster the
State’s argument. The State could also participate in Madison County using
the same remote means.”

At an unrelated event Wednesday, Pritzker said the law is meant to combat
what he called “venue shopping.”

“It will obviously run through the court system. I signed it,” Pritzker
said. “I think it’s something that makes sense for just organizing the
court system so there isn’t a lot of venue shopping going on by people who
are just trying to find a friendly judge here or there.”

Pritzker said he believes Sangamon or Cook counties are the right venues
for such lawsuits to be handled.

“The experts that are in the two venues that have been designated seem
like they have handled constitutional related cases more than any others
and so it made sense to me to have those cases run through there,” he
said.

The state has until the end of the month to appeal the Madison County
decision.


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