Lockman Foundation v. Evangelical Alliance Mission Evangelical Alliance Mission of Japan Kenneth G. McVety

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• holding that lack of jury trials in Japan does not render Japan an inadequate forum
• holding that policy favoring expeditious trial weighed in favor of Japanese forum since U.S. court’s keeping the case would result in duplicate lawsuits in U.S. and Japan
• holding Japanese forum to be adequate although discovery procedures were “not identical to those in the United States”
• affirming that a forum was adequate even though it would foreclose bringing RICO and Lanham Act claims
• affirming that a forum was adequate even though it would foreclose bringing RICO and Lanham Act claims
• noting that we have recognized that \[t]he presence of American plaintiffs ... is not in and of itself sufficient to bar a district court from dismissing a case on the ground of forum non conveniens \

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