· 7/31/1997
Elling v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
Citations
- 683 N.E.2d 929
- 291 Ill. App. 3d 311
- 225 Ill. Dec. 426
- 1997 Ill. App. LEXIS 540
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- noting that “the test is still whether the relevant factors, viewed in their totality, strongly favor transfer to another forum”
- noting that the deference to be accorded in such circumstances “is only less, as opposed to none” (emphases in original)
- noting that the denial of the defendants’ forum non conveniens motion was appropriate where they did not sustain their burden of showing that the relevant private interest factors strongly favored another forum and that the present forum was inconvenient
- noting that the denial of the defendants' forum non conveniens motion was appropriate where they did not sustain their burden of showing that the relevant private interest factors strongly favored another forum and that the present forum was inconvenient
- a court may properly consider “the fact that only four of the six defendants joined in the motion to transfer”
- a court may properly consider “the fact that only four of the six defendants joined in the motion to transfer”
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Judges: Burke
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