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Forum Selection Forum Non Conveniens Jurisdiction

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Legal Shopping Spree Continues in Internal Affairs Disputes: Key Case Developments

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The first half of 2025 saw numerous developments in the strategies and counterstrategies between corporations and their stockholders in efforts to find the most favorable law and courts to decide disputes between them....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals

This Week At The Ninth: Trade Dress and Forum Non Conveniens

This week, the Court considers trademark protections for furniture and the enforceability of forum-selection clauses.  The Court affirms the district court’s decision holding a defendant liable for trade dress...more

Quinn Emanuel

September 2020: Eleventh Circuit Clarifies "Forum Non Conveniens" Doctrine

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A recent federal decision provided significant guidance on a frequently disputed issue in transnational litigation: applying the forum non conveniens doctrine. On July 1, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Forum Non Conveniens - The Recut Gem of Motions to Dismiss

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Foreign cities, thieves, and millions of dollars’ worth of missing diamonds. This may sound like the trailer for this summer’s blockbuster action film, but this story of hustling and heisting comes straight from Swissgem S.A...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

California Court of Appeal Enforces Delaware Forum Selection Bylaw

In Drulias v. 1st Century Bancshares, Inc., No. H045049, 2018 WL 6735137 (Cal. App. Dec. 21, 2018), the California Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District, affirmed an order staying a stockholder lawsuit brought in the...more

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Delaware Rejects Adequate Alternative Forum as an Independent Threshold Consideration for Forum Non Conveniens Applications

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The Delaware Supreme Court recently issued an important decision clarifying Delaware’s forum non conveniens FNC law in Hupan v. Philip Morris USA, Consol. No. 526, 2016 (Del. 3/22/2018). Delaware FNC law has long permitted...more

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New Case Demonstrates the Importance of Forum Selection Clauses

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On November 4, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied a motion filed by a company to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former Libya-based employee. This decision ended the company's...more

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