Hassan El-Fadl v. Central Bank of Jordan

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that State Department report expressing “concern about the impartiality” of Jordanian courts did not suffice to make that forum inadequate
• holding that plaintiff failed to show jurisdiction over foreign defendant when it showed only that defendant owned the majority of shares in the local corporation and that the two corporations worked together on certain transactions
• holding that when faced with the prospect of dismissal, a plaintiff is entitled to “reasonable discovery, lest the defendant defeat jurisdiction of a federal court by withholding information on its contacts with the forum”
• stating that “the defendant must provide more detailed information if the plaintiff provides evidence that controverts the defendant’s evidence”
• explaining that defendants “must provide enough information to enable the District Court to evaluate alternative forum”
• noting that “the defendant bears the burden of proving” the applicability of the forum non coveniens doctrine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).