PAN-AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE CO.

v.

RODRIGUEZ ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Alcoa S.S. Co., Inc. v. M/V Nordic Regent, 654 F.2d 147 (2d Cir. 1978)
  …of proof upon American litigants for courts to make this factual determination on a case-by-case, country-by-country basis. See Menendez Rodriguez v. Pan American Life Ins. Co., 311 F. 2d 429, 433 (5th Cir. 1962), judgment vacated on other grounds, 376 U.S. 779, 84 S.Ct. 1130, 12 L.Ed.2d 82 (1964). Pending the millennium, it is better, we think, to adhere to the traditional doctrine that, in the absence of unusually extreme circumstances and manifest injustice, the American plaintiffs choice of his home fo…
• Anastasia Sigalas v. Lido Mar., Inc., 776 F.2d 1512 (11th Cir. 1985)
  …nstitutes an appealable final order. Disposition of a case on forum non conveniens grounds per se is a final order subject to appeal. Menendez Rodriguez v. Pan American Life Insurance Co., 311 F. 2d 429, 432 (5th Cir.1962), vacated on other grounds, 376 U.S. 779, 84 S.Ct. 1130, 12 L.Ed.2d 82 (1964). But there is uncertainty whether conditions of the sort noted supra make such order interlocutory. In considering the somewhat elusive concept of finality, we find persuasive and adopt the reasoning of the Fifth…
• Schertenleib v. Traum, 589 F.2d 1156 (2d Cir. 1978)
  …ntly not yet applicable), thus distinguishing that case from this one. See discussion in the text at note 14, supra. We also note Menendez Rodriguez v. Pan American Life Insurance Co., 311 F. 2d 429, 432-33 (5th Cir. 1962), vacated on other grounds, 376 U.S. 779, 84 S.Ct. 1130, 12 L.Ed.2d 82 (1964), reversing a district court’s dismissal on forum non conveniens grounds. Although that decision quotes the Tivoli language above, it is unclear whether the reversal rests on that point, or on the ground that no j…