Job Haines Home for the Aged v. Young

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that where judge in proposed transferee district was “intimately familiar” with the case at hand, it would be a “gross waste of judicial resources” not to transfer the case
• noting that courts generally “assign the plaintiff’s choice of forum significant weight”
• stating, “[T]he weight of authority holds that in class actions ... the class representative’s choice of forum is entitled to lessened deference”
• transferring securities class action because class representative's decision to sue in its home state was the product of \a mere fortuity\
• finding jurisdiction in the transferee district was proper, where the transferee district “already exercised jurisdiction over these same defendants with respect to these same allegations.”
• finding jurisdiction in the transferee district was proper, where the transferee district “already exercised jurisdiction over these same defendants with respect to these same allegations.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).