National Property Investors VIII v. Shell Oil Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a plaintiff’s choice of venue is not “decisive,” and that the choice is accorded less deference “when the central facts of a lawsuit occur outside of the chosen forum”
• holding that a plaintiff’s choice of venue is not “decisive,” and that the choice is accorded less deference “when the central facts of a lawsuit occur outside of the chosen forum”
• holding that a plaintiff’s choice of venue is not “decisive,” and that the choice is accorded less deference “when the central facts of a lawsuit occur outside of the chosen forum”
• holding that a plaintiffs choice of venue is not “decisive,” and that the choice is accorded less deference “when the central facts of a lawsuit occur outside of the chosen forum”
• “the convenience of non-party witnesses is accorded greater weight in the Section 1404(a) analysis than party witnesses”
• “Plaintiff’s choice of forum is not accorded the decisive weight [it] enjoys under forum non conveniens.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).