Jonathan Barnett v. Dyncorp International, L.L.C.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that validity and enforceability issues were indistinguishable, but that, under federal law, a forum-selection clause may be held invalid if its enforcement “would contravene a strong public policy of the forum state”
• observing that the Fifth Circuit has not “said what source of law governs the ‘validity’ of a forum-selection clause” and declining to decide that issue
• observing that the Fifth Circuit has not “said what source of law governs the ‘validity’ of a forum-selection clause” and declining to decide that issue
• explaining that federal law controls question of the enforceability of forum-selection clauses, while interpretation of such clauses is governed by the law of the chosen forum
• explaining that “[w]hen the interpretation of a forum-selection clause is at issue in a diversity case, . . . the forum state’s choice-of- law rules . . . determine what substantive law governs” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that “[w]hen the ‘interpretation’ of a forum-selection clause is at issue in a diversity case . . . [the court] appl[ies] the forum state’s choice-of-law rules to determine what substantive law governs” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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• J.D. Fields & Co. v. Eng'rs
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• Pinkus v. Sirius XM Radio Inc.
  N.D. Illinois· 2017-05-23· cited 10×
• Fintech Fund, FLP v. Horne
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Cites

45 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Erie Railroad v. Tompkins
  Supreme Court· 1938-04-25· cited 18,491×
• The Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Co.
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-12· cited 3,455×
• Atlantic Marine Constr. Co. v. United States Dist. Court for Western Dist. of Tex.
  Supreme Court· 2013-12-03· cited 3,278×
• Stewart Organization, Inc. v. Ricoh Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-20· cited 3,025×
• Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co.
  Supreme Court· 1974-10-15· cited 1,616×
• Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-17· cited 1,405×
• Texas Industries, Inc. v. Radcliff Materials, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1981-05-26· cited 882×
• Moises Galindo v. Precision American Corp., Georgia Pacific Corporation
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-03-11· cited 865×
• DeSantis v. Wackenhut Corp.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1990-06-06· cited 739×
• Galbraith Engineering Consultants, Inc. v. Pochucha
  Texas Supreme Court· 2009-06-26· cited 330×
• George Lambert, D/B/A Rainbow Fruit v. Sam Kysar and Joan Kysar, D/B/A Lewis River Tree Farm
  First Circuit· 1993-01-13· cited 312×
• In Re AIU Insurance Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2004-09-03· cited 311×
• Haynsworth v. the Corporation
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-08-29· cited 310×
• Martinez v. Bloomberg LP
  Second Circuit· 2014-01-14· cited 287×
• Peter Weber v. Pact XPP Technologies, AG
  Fifth Circuit· 2016-01-26· cited 246×
• Trinity River Authority v. URS Consultants, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1994-06-22· cited 236×
• CTS Corp. v. Waldburger
  Supreme Court· 2014-06-09· cited 210×
• New Moon Shipping Company, Limited and International Marine Investors and Management Corporation v. Man B & W Diesel Ag
  Second Circuit· 1997-06-18· cited 202×
• Northwestern National Insurance Company v. William F. Donovan
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-10-17· cited 167×
• United States v. Leon-Garcia
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-01-05· cited 116×