Rong Kohtz writes: In this era of globalization, many families maintain multiple residences in different countries and bear different nationalities. Consequently, family members may be subject to ...

In this Aviation Law column Steven R. Pounian and Justin T. Green address the forum non conveniens doctrine and argue that courts should provide more deference to a foreign plaintiff who selects a ...

In a time when we speak of the need for walls on our borders, we are also seeing a revival of the application of the doctrine of forum non conveniens to send matters involving foreign law, foreign ...

Airflow Catalyst Systems, Inc. v. Huss Technologies GmbH, Case no. 11-CV-6012 (W.D.N.Y. 2011), presents an interesting application of the judge-made rules of forum non conveniens. The topic is an ever ...

What is forum non-conveniens? According to the principle of “forum non-conveniens” (or inconvenient forum), a court has the power to dismiss a civil action where an appropriate and more convenient ...

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Halo Creative & Design, Ltd. V. Comptoir Des Indes, Inc., (Fed. Cir. Mar. 14, 2016) (Before Mayer, Dyk, and Hughes, J.) (Opinion for the court, Dyk, J.). Click Here ...

(Reuters) - The estate of a Texas man who presumably died in the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 asked (2020 WL 4386258) the U.S. Supreme Court last week to address “disarray” and ...

Say you live in California, but have a business deal in France, with a Frenchman who lives in California. The deal goes sour, and you sue in California court. A California court might well say, "Look, ...

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Courts developed the forum non conveniens doctrine to protect defendants from being sued in an inconvenient location. When the doctrine was established, companies were subject to personal jurisdiction ...