· 11/21/1983
Donna Lee McLaughlin v. Arco Polymers, Inc., a Corporation and Atlantic Richfield Company, a Corporation
Citations
- 721 F.2d 426
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- explaining that section 1631 “authorizes the court in which a case has been improperly filed to transfer it to a court in 8 which the action or appeal could have been brought ‘if it is in the interest of justice’”
- “Section 1631 does not, however, provide for the transfer of this action to a state court. Both the -2- statutory language and the legislative history show that this provision was directed to the federal court system.”
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Judges: Gibbons, Sloviter, Becker
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