Dominic Murray v. British Broadcasting Corporation and Bbc Lionheart Television International

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a domestic plaintiff's choice of forum is entitled to more deference than a foreign plaintiff's
• stating that plaintiff's financial hardship should be weighed as a single factor \after the court determines that an alternative forum is available\
• noting that absence of contingency fee arrangements “may not be considered in determining the availability of an alternative forum”
• discussing federal authority and concluding that a majority of courts treat the plaintiff's financial hardship as one factor to be weighed in the balance of convenience
• “[b]alancing the plaintiffs financial burdens as one of several relevant factors serves the ‘repeatedly emphasized . . . need to retain flexibility’ in the application of the forum non conveniens doctrine”
• affirming dismissal of copyright claims based on infringement in the United States

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).