“A court may lack personal jurisdiction over a 16 defendant, but never over a plaintiff, who consents to such jurisdiction by filing suit.”
How later courts described this case
- “A court may lack personal jurisdiction over a 16 defendant, but never over a plaintiff, who consents to such jurisdiction by filing suit.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
I concur in the affirmance, because of the practical construction and use by the Association of its paper constitution and resolutions. This was not sporadic or exceptional, but was so general and persistent as to disclose an unlawful purpose of the organization, of which the complaining defendants must have been cognizant.