Midwest Motor Express, Inc. Midnite Express, Inc. Express Cartage, Inc. v. Central States Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund

How courts have described this case

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• finding the transfer order and the denial of the injunction “inextricably bound up with each other”
• affirming district court’s decision to transfer the case based on the first-filed rule
• question is which forum “would facilitate the parties’ access to the testimony of [key witnesses]”
• question of witness convenience included whether witnesses would be “unwilling” to attend in the chosen forum
• which forum “would facilitate the parties’ access ... to the documents that comprise and illuminate” the dispute between the parties
• proper consideration of the benefits of consolidation arises when litigation in both fora is “live”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).