Erwin Ex Rel. Erwin v. Motorola, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the convenience of the parties did not favor dismissal in favor of Texas because the defendant “could - 18 - Nos. 1-21-0274; 1-21-0282 (cons.
• dismissing defendant’s forum non conveniens motion where defendant failed to identify a single out-of-state witness
• “Motorola could not genuinely contend that litigating the case in Illinois, where it maintained its corporate headquarters, would prove inconvenient to it.”
• location of defendant’s headquarters and alleged source of safety policies weighed against plaintiffs’ residences in Arizona and Texas
• “it has become well recognized by our courts that given our current state of technology *** documentary evidence can be copied and transported easily and inexpensively”
• defendant Motorola “failed in its burden to establish that the relative ease of obtaining such ‘scattered’ testimonial evidence weighed strongly in favor of dismissal and transfer”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).