Empresa Lineas Maritimas Argentinas, S.A. v. Schichau-Unterweser, A.G., and Stork-Werkspoor Diesel, B.V.

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• holding that district courts in this circuit need not state the degree of deference “accorded a plaintiffs forum choice” and refusing to find an abuse of discretion in an instance in which a court failed to do so
• stating that a court may be justifiably suspicious that a foreign national corporation may be attempting to “obtain the benefit of favorable law” in its selection of an American forum
• rejecting argument that district court acted unreasonably in dismissing case filed eight years before, in which third-party claim by moving plaintiff was filed two years earlier
• examining only the access to and location of documents, not witnesses, under the “access to proof sources” heading
• affirming dismissal of suit on forum non conveniens grounds after eight years of litigation, where the United States parties had settled out, leaving only foreign litigants
• finding “no need to consider the public interest factors” when the “balance of private interest factors favor[ed] dismissal”

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