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FORUM CONVENIENS

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A jurisdiction or court which is convenient or inconvenient. A lawsuit may be dismissed or moved from a forum that is not convenient or inappropriate, e.g. where an accident occurred in state A and the plaintiff and most defendants live in state B with the case being filed in state C, an inconvenient forum. … [Read more...]

FORUM NON CONVENIENS

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Latin for an inconvenient forum or court where the current court acknowledges that another forum or court is more appropriate and sends the case to such a forum. A change of venue, where another venue is more appropriate to adjudicate a matter, such as the jurisdiction within which an accident occurred and where all the witnesses reside. … [Read more...]

FORUM SHOPPING

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When a plaintiff chooses between two or more courts that would have jurisdiction over a lawsuit and selects the most beneficial court. If the defendant objects that the forum is inconvenient, there are processes the court undertakes to determine what would be most fair, for example, the distance of the court to where the accident occurred and witness may live. … [Read more...]

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