Adolf Lony v. E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that “[o]rdinarily, great deference is accorded a plaintiff’s choice of forum, but the amount of deference due is less when the plaintiff is foreign”
• explaining “the reason for giving a foreign plaintiffs choice less deference is not xenophobia, but merely a reluctance to assume that the choice is a convenient one”
• \The conclusion that a balance at equipoise or tipped toward the defendant favors dismissal is . . . an error of law.\
• “When the [district] court found the private interest factors to be ‘at equipose’ . . . it should have concluded that they weighed in favor of retaining jurisdiction, not that they tipped ‘toward dismissal.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).