Supreme Court· 6/13/1960

Hoffman v. Blaski

Citations

363 U.S. 335
80 S. Ct. 1084
4 L. Ed. 2d 1254
1960 U.S. LEXIS 1998
125 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 553

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holding that the lan- guage of 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a)—which permits the transfer of “any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought”—unambiguously means at the time the lawsuit was filed
stating that the failure to object to improper venue constitutes a waiver of the defect
res judicata principles did not limit power of Court of Appeals to reconsider transfer decision not upset by coordinate court
section 1404(a) does not permit transfer to a court where either venue or personal jurisdiction is lacking
“[T]he defendant must satisfy a very substantial burden of demonstrating where justice and convenience lie, in order to have his objection to a forum of hardship, in the particular situation, respected.”
the action “might have been brought” in Michigan if the “‘claim 14 arose’ in Michigan, within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. s 1391(a), the general venue statute”

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Judges: Whittaker, Stewart, Frankfurter, Harlan, Brennan

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