RUFFIN

v.

UNITED STATES ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno, 454 U.S. 235 (U.S. 1981)
  …A/S Hakedal, 210 F. 2d 754, 757 (CA2) (defendant not entitled to dismissal on grounds oí forum non conveniens solely because the law of the original forum is less favorable to him than the law of the alternative forum), cert. dism’d by stipulation, 348 U. S. 801 (1954). Barrack at least implicitly recognized that the rule it announced for transfer under § 1404(a) was not the common-law rule. It cited several decisions [*254] under § 1404(a) in which lower courts had been “strongly inclined to protect plain…
• Pain v. United Techs. Corp., 637 F.2d 775 (D.C. Cir. 1980)
  …975), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 1052, 96 S.Ct. 781, 46 L.Ed.2d 641 (1976); Koupetoris v. Konkar Intrepid Corp., 535 F. 2d 1392, 1397 n.22 (2d Cir. 1976); Kloeckner Reederei und Kohlenhandel v. A/S Hakedal, 210 F. 2d 754, 757 (2d Cir.), cert. dismissed, 348 U.S. 801, 75 S.Ct. 17, 99 L.Ed. 633 (1954). . Indeed, the search for the forum with the most advantageous governing law lies at the very heart of the notion of forum-shopping. Cf. Hanna v. Plumer, 380 U.S. 460, 85 S.Ct. 1136, 14 L.Ed.2d 8 (1965) (discussing…
• Fitzgerald v. Texaco, Inc., 521 F.2d 448 (2d Cir. 1975)
  …ts of the forum in which the action proceeds. The Scotland, 105 U.S. 24, 29, 26 L.Ed. 1001 (1881); The Belgenland, 114 U.S. 335, 369, 5 S.Ct. 860, 29 L.Ed. 152 (1885); Kloeckner Reederei v. A/S Hakedal, 210 F. 2d 754, 756 (2 Cir. 1954), cert. dism., 348 U.S. 801, 75 S.Ct. 17, 99 L.Ed. 633 (1955); Pacific Vegetable Oil Corp. v. S/S Shalom, 257 F.Supp. 944, 946 (S.D.N.Y.1966). England apparently accepts this doctrine. The Buenos Aires, 5 F. 2d 425, 437 (2 Cir. 1924).5 Plaintiffs claim that the difference betw…