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· 6/24/1983

John Sinclair v. Richard G. Kleindienst

Citations

  • 711 F.2d 291
  • 229 U.S. App. D.C. 13
  • 1983 U.S. App. LEXIS 26436

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that complaint must give “defendant fair notice of the plaintiffs claim and the grounds upon which it rests”
  • holding that complaint must give \defendant fair notice of plaintiff's claim and the grounds on which it rests\
  • noting that transfer to a court with personal jurisdiction over the defendants makes “adjudication on the merits of plaintiffs claims possible”
  • holding that transfer under an analogous transfer statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1406, is in the interest of justice where “without a transfer the cause of action would be barred by the running of the applicable statute of limitations”
  • observing that “[r]efusal to transfer spells the end to the action, while transfer would not prejudice the defendants’ position on [the] merits”
  • noting that \[t]ransfer is particularly appropriate where ... without a transfer the cause of action would be barred by the running of the applicable statute of limitations\

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Judges: Wald, Mikya, MacKinnon

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