Illinois Central Railroad v. River & Rail Coal & Coke Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that because the parties adopted a forum selection clause, \the fact that [plaintiff] filed suit in Massachusetts is entitled no weight\
• enforcing forum selection clause that covered any disputes “relating to” or “in connection with” the parties’ agreement where “[t]he dispute between the parties would not have occurred but for the [agreement]”
• enforcing forum selection clause that covered any disputes “relating to” or “in connection with” the parties’ agreement where “[t]he dispute between the parties would not have occurred but for the [agreement]”
• \[T]he Atlantic Marine decision unequivocally removed any consideration of private interests in the § 1404(a) context when a forum-selection clause is present.\
• the terms “relating to” or “in connection with” are “generally construed quite broadly”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).