Davis v. Costa-Gavras

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that plaintiffs, foreign service officers, in fact suffered the greatest harm in Washington, D.C.
• noting that the Court was “particularly” willing to apply the law of the defendants’ domicile, “when,” as in Costa-Gavras, “it is also the forum state”
• explaining how “New York, as the national center of the publishing industry, has a significant interest in assuring that the risks and liabilities flowing from publishing and related options contracts, negotiated and largely performed here, will be uniform”
• construing Virginia's 5 long-arm statute after a transfer from that state
• “New York courts recognize the utility of a contacts analysis, similar to that suggested by section 145 of the Restatement, in tort actions involving multistate elements.”
• author of purportedly non-fiction paperback book not liable for republication, over which he had no control, of same material in reissued paperback form, regardless of “foreseeability”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).