Davis v. Avondale Industries, Inc.

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• recognizing that translation of documents into English, in addition to increasing costs, results in “delay to the court,” and “militates strongly” in favor of forum non conveniens dismissal
• holding that “that the presence of an adequate Venezuelan forum, and the strong adverse balance of Gilbert private and public factors, outweigh the initial choice of [the foreign plaintiff] of a New York forum”
• finding Venezuela an adequate alternate forum despite plaintiffs affidavit evidence of systemic corruption, delay, expense, political influence and bias against foreign litigants in Venezuelan justice system
• applying the “normal forum non conveniens analysis” because the contract did not make the plaintiff’s selected forum mandatory or exclusive
• applying the “normal forum non conveniens analysis” because the contract did not make the plaintiff’s selected forum mandatory or exclusive
• finding Venezuela to be an adequate alternative forum despite claims of systematic corruption and bias in favor of defendants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).