· 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
How courts have described this case
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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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