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Venue
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Venue Objection Waived
A Deepwater Horizon victim who had sued her law firm for malpractice had the claim improperly dismissed because the suit had been filed in Mississippi rather than the forum designated…
The Fiduciary Litigator
Texas Court Holds That Venue Is Appropriate In County Where The Trustee Resided Under The Texas Trust Code, Which Trumps Other Venue Statutes
In Parker v. Filip, a trust owned a limited partnership interest and the partnership owned real property in Fayette County, Texas. No. 14-23-00372-CV, 2023 Tex. App. LEXIS 6976 (Tex. App.—Houston…
Duane Morris Products Liability
Pa. Supreme Court Rules on Proper Venue Standards
By Duane Morris
By Alan Klein and Ethan Feldman In Hangey v. Husqvarna, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently ruled that the percentage of a corporate defendant’s total revenue generated from a forum county…
Product Perspective: Complex Tort & Product Law
0.005% of National Revenue from Philadelphia County Held Sufficient to Support Venue
By Magda Patitsas, Brandan Mueller, Thomas Cocchi
Philadelphia County has long been a preferred forum for plaintiffs’ bar in Pennsylvania. Until last week, a motion to dismiss for improper venue under Pa. R. Civ. P. 1028(a)(1) was…
Tort Talk
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rejects Typical Challenge to Venue
PhiladelphiaThe Pennsylvania Supreme Court has revised the test for determining proper venue by rejecting the ‘Percentage of Revenue’ venue defense. In the case of Hangey v. Husqvarna, No. 14 EAP…
Tort Talk
Superior Court Reverses Trial Courts Granting of Motion To Transfer Venue Under Doctrine of Forum Non Conveniens
It's a Philly Thing.In the case of Tranter v. Z & D Tour, Inc., No. 1746 EDA 2022 (Pa. Super. Oct. 11, 2023 Panella, P.J., Dubow, J., and Sullivan, J.)…
Retail, Restaurant & Hospitality Law
DEFENSE WINS! – Motion To Transfer Venue Due To Forum Non Conveniens Granted
Anytime we can get a case transferred out of Cook County Circuit Court it’s a good day – for many reasons. We were able to do so for a client,…
Drug & Device Law
Good Venue Ruling in Missouri, With a Word of Caution on Timeliness
St. Louis City courts have long been considered among the most pro-plaintiff in the country and for years litigation tourists flocked there using multi-plaintiff complaints with a single city resident…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Ohio General Assembly expands venues for administrative appeals
By Brad Hughes
As Ohio attorneys who focus on appellate issues, one of the trusty treatises we often consult in our practice is former First District Court of Appeals Judge Mark Painter’s seminal…
Virginia Rocket Docket Blog
EDVA Reaffirms its Aversion to Litigation Between Out of State Companies in Recent Venue Decision
From the mid-1990s until the mid-2010s, the EDVA typically ranked among the top 10 federal districts for patent litigation. See Gugliuzza, Paul R. and Anderson, Jonas, Why Do Judges Compete…