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Chapter 1008: 326: Hope the Intermediate Court Holds Firm!_2

Chapter 1008: Chapter 326: Hope the Intermediate Court Holds Firm!_2

The other side has made a very reasonable argument, and it is grounded in legal basis. However, no matter how one argues, it doesn’t change one thing: this is a civil infringement case.

The place where the infringement occurred is in Jingzhou City, specifically in Bright District, so Guangming District Court has jurisdiction!

However, since the case is relatively unusual, it still needs to be reported to the higher-ups.

A few days later, Guangming District Court issued a ruling dismissing Qiangsheng Company and New Grand Auto Sales Company’s application for jurisdictional objection. The ruling determined that this case would remain under the jurisdiction of Guangming District Court!

Soon enough, Qiangsheng Company received the ruling document. Their legal affairs director was dumbfounded as he read through the decision.

“What? Is Guangming District Court not feeling swamped by enough cases already?”

As he understood it, most busy local courts typically accept jurisdictional objections—for no other reason than that it’s good to offload as many cases as possible.

Grassroots courts are simply overloaded with cases; avoiding more work is almost always the smarter choice.

The legal affairs director had heard before that Guangming District Court’s docket was so full it was reaching breaking point—judges working overtime until they suffered heart attacks—and had assumed they’d agree to let this case go.

Who would have thought they’d actually decide to keep the case!

No, this has to be appealed. Even if the odds are slim, jurisdictional rights must be contested!

Qiangsheng Company filed an appeal. At this point, Lao Zhou really wanted to curse.

When you don’t want a case, no matter how hard you try to push it off, it clings to you like a lifeline. But when you actually want to handle a case, the other side throws jurisdictional objections left and right, and now they’ve escalated it to an appeal. He was utterly at a loss for words.

For now, he could only wait for the Intermediate Court’s ruling. Until the Intermediate Court ruled, there was nothing he could do on his end except wait.

That said, Lao Zhou still had confidence in the case. Over the past few weeks, he had been working overtime to gather multiple pieces of evidence as per Old Tang’s requests.

Even though the defendant had yet to submit their evidence or defense statement, making it hard for him to determine the exact circumstances of the case,

when it came to jurisdiction, this case could be settled in Handong or Modu without issue.

In situations like this, generally speaking, the court that files the case first gains jurisdiction.

Thus, it was highly likely the Intermediate Court would support this case being heard in Jingzhou.

March 27th, sunny, another beautiful day.

Lao Zhou made his way to the court office. He had barely taken a seat when he received a call.

“Has the Intermediate Court made a decision? This case isn’t being transferred, right? That’s good, that’s good…”

On the other end of the line was a friend at the Intermediate Court. Hearing that the case wasn’t being transferred, Lao Zhou finally let out a sigh of relief.

“But the Intermediate Court has decided to hear the case themselves. According to the judicial interpretation issued by the Supreme Court two years ago, cases like this should be handled at a first-instance level by either an intellectual property court or the Intermediate Court in the provincial capital.”

Hmm… Ah? The smile on Lao Zhou’s face slowly disappeared.

“What did you say? The Intermediate Court decided to hear it themselves?” Lao Zhou quickly asked.

On the phone, his friend’s voice came through loud and clear: “The ruling document is already issued and should reach you by tomorrow. Just giving you a heads-up so you can prepare to transfer the materials.”

“Hey, Lao Zhou, why aren’t you saying anything?”

What his friend heard next was a frustrated outburst: “Can’t you just finish what you’re saying in one go?!”

After hanging up, the friend on the Intermediate Court’s end was puzzled. With such a contentious and complex case, who would even want to handle it? Shouldn’t Lao Zhou be glad that the Intermediate Court was taking it off his hands?

Why did his old friend sound so despondent?

Could it be that handling cases and working overtime every day had muddled his mind?

Truly incomprehensible, absolutely baffling.

To be fair, grassroots courts are undeniably busier. Under the current hierarchical jurisdiction system, grassroots courts have long been saturated with cases. Regular overtime for judges like Lao Zhou has become the norm.

In contrast, Intermediate Courts fare much better. In most second-instance cases, the rulings are upheld, and many don’t even require court sessions. So as for Lao Zhou’s friend, he had never experienced the surge in KPIs Old Tang could bring.

Meanwhile, Lao Zhou put down his phone, a hint of exasperation in his eyes. This time, it really felt like all conditions—timing, geography—had aligned perfectly.

Old Tang hadn’t stirred up any trouble either. Just when he was about to finally begin handling the case, the higher court turned around and completely blindsided him!

Forget it. If it’s meant to be, so be it; if it’s not, so be it. He could only wait for the next opportunity.

Old Tang received the ruling document the next day. Looking at the document in his hands, he let out a helpless laugh. What could he say? Lao Zhou just had bad luck, that’s all.

However… considering his follow-up arrangements, perhaps calling it bad luck wasn’t accurate after all.

Now that the jurisdiction of the court had been finalized, it was time to focus on preparing for trial!

In Modu, at Qiangsheng Company’s headquarters, the legal affairs director let out a sigh as well. In the end, they couldn’t get the case transferred, but having the Intermediate Court handle it wasn’t the worst outcome either.

Everyone said Tang Fangjing was a top-tier lawyer, but for this case, he would just have to give it his all!

This was a matter of vested interests. Just because Tang Fangjing was famous didn’t mean he had to back down. Lawsuits aren’t about reputation!

Fu Shaofei was also fully supportive of this strategy. In this scenario, the only choice was to go all in.

As for Liu, he had no plans to hire a lawyer or do anything else. With the manufacturer standing as the primary defendant, his company was merely caught up in the storm.

Besides, as a state-owned enterprise-controlled joint venture, the manufacturer had resources far greater than his own company. All he needed to do was sit back and let them handle it.

One drizzly spring morning, on the final day of the evidence submission window, Old Tang received the defendant’s defense statement and corresponding evidence copies from Qiangsheng Company.

Sitting in his office, accompanied by the gentle sound of rain pattering outside the window, Old Tang began to carefully analyze their strategy.