Colleen A. Cote v. Peter J. Wadel and Wadel & Bulger, P.C.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a “compelling reason” for transfer is that the plaintiff “will be time-barred if his case is dismissed and thus has to be filed anew in the right court”
• holding a “handful of letters and phone calls” were insufficient to establish personal jurisdiction
• finding a “handful of letters and phone calls that passed between” the in-state plaintiff and the out-of-state law firm did not suffice to establish jurisdiction
• discussing broad discretion under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1404, 1406 to transfer a case in the interests of justice
• discussing broad discretion under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1404, 1406 to transfer a case in the interests of justice
• upholding a district court’s decision not to transfer a case when “[e]lementary prudence” would have indicated to the lawyer the proper jurisdiction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).