Eastman Kodak Co. v. Kavlin

How courts have described this case

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• noting that argument that \[t]he 'alternative forum is too corrupt to be adequate' ... does not enjoy a particularly impressive track record\
• noting that the argument that “[t]he ‘alternative forum is too corrupt to be adequate’ . . . does not enjoy a particularly impressive track record.”
• finding that defendant failed to meet its burden of showing that Bolivia was an adequate forum where plaintiff produced strong supporting of serious partiality and manipulation there
• rejecting trial court delay of five years as a ground for denying a motion to dismiss for forum non conveniens
• denying motion to cede jurisdiction to Bolivia, because defendants' attorney, who was godfather to the illegitimate child of a Bolivian judge, influenced that judge to order the unlawful imprisonment of plaintiff's Bolivian representative
• detention of eight or ten days can be sufficiently “substantial” so as to be constitute prolonged detention under adverse conditions of detention

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).