Joyner v. Reno

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the “might have been brought” language of § 1404(a) “does not permit a Court to consider a statute of limitations defense when determining whether transfer is appropriate”
• “[A] court has no discretion to reach the merits of a case in which venue is improper and an objection to venue has been properly raised; the case must either be dismissed or transferred to a proper venue.”
• “[A] court has no discretion to reach the merits of a case in which venue is improper and an objection to venue has been properly raised; the case must either be dismissed or transferred to a proper venue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).