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· 6/7/1972

Brunette MacHine Works, Ltd. v. Kockum Industries, Inc.

Citations

  • 406 U.S. 706
  • 92 S. Ct. 1936
  • 32 L. Ed. 2d 428
  • 1972 U.S. LEXIS 161
  • 174 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 1

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  • holding that, strictly speaking, suits against aliens are outside the operation of all federal venue statutes
  • holding that § 1391(d) is “a declaration of the long-established rule that suits against aliens are wholly outside the operation of all the federal venue laws, general and special”
  • holding that the alien-venue rule is “a declaration of the long-established rule that suits against aliens are wholly outside the operation of all the federal venue laws, general and special”
  • noting that the burden may be different under § 1400(b
  • observing “venue Case No. 24-cv-21816-BLOOM/Elfenbein provisions are designed, not to keep suits out of the federal courts, but merely to allocate suits to the most appropriate or convenient federal forum’’
  • observing “venue Case No. 24-cv-21816-BLOOM/Elfenbein provisions are designed, not to keep suits out of the federal courts, but merely to allocate suits to the most appropriate or convenient federal forum’’

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Judges: Marshall

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