In the case of Insurance Corp. of Ireland v. Compagnie
des Bauxites456 U.S. 694 (1982), Bauxites said that the Court had no
jurisdiction.The plaintiffs wanted
discovery in order to prove that there was no jurisdiction, and Bauxites
refused to allow for discovery.The lower court sanctioned Bauxites by finding jurisdiction. Bauxites
showed up in Court to contest that there was jurisdiction.
The
Supreme Court found that when Bauxites showed up and claimed there was no
jurisdiction, that gave the Court jurisdiction.
The
only thing Bauxites could have done was to accept a default judgment, and
then argue in an Irish Court to claim that they can't be held for the
judgment because there was no jurisdiction.Kind of a Catch-22.