Brinson v. Martin

How courts have described this case

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

• applying Georgia law to the questions of proper venue even when the contract at issue contained forum-selection and choice-of-law provisions that Nebraska law should apply
• upholding dismissal of complaint for improper venue where “nothing in the record indicat[ed] that [employer] obtained [employee’s] assent to the forum selection clause [in employment contract] by fraud or overreaching”
• upholding dismissal of complaint for improper venue where there was no showing that an employer had fraudulently obtained an employee’s assent to include forum selection clause in an employment contract
• “statutes governing the place of bringing a suit do not affect the parties’ substantive rights, hut rather are a matter of procedure”
• “[u]nder the rule of lex fori, procedural or remedial questions are governed by the law of the forum, the state in which the action is brought”
• “one who signs a contract is presumed to know its contents . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).