Richard \Bud\ Steen v. Robert Murray

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “when a diversity case is transferred under § 1406(a) because venue in the transferor court was improper, ‘§ 1406(a) transfer calls for application of the law of the transferee court,’ beginning with its choice-of-law rules.”
• explaining that inquiry does not depend only on a “defendant’s allegedly wrongful activities,” but the “focus must be on relevant activities of the defendant in the forum state, not on the effect of those activities on the plaintiff in the forum state”
• finding the Southern District of Iowa was improper venue when the plaintiff challenged legal services done in Nebraska relating to land in the Southern District of Iowa
• “an event does not ‘give rise to the claim’ simply because the alleged wrongful conduct would have been impossible without the event”
• “A case may be transferred under § 1404(a) only when venue is proper in the transferor and transferee forums.”
• “Because the malpractice—the alleged wrongful activity—occurred exclusively in the District of Nebraska, neither district court erred in concluding that the Southern District of Iowa was an improper venue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).