Sergio Alejandro Aguilar v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the state where “a substantial amount, if not all, of the alleged culpable conduct occurred . . . has a stronger public interest in adjudicating this dispute”
• recognizing the continued vitality of this principle from Romero
• describing the action as an “admiralty ease” where an injured seaman sought relief under the Jones Act and general maritime law
• affirming dismissal on forum non conveniens grounds and concluding that New Zealand provided adequate remedy, despite significantly limited damages remedy
• “Jury duty is a burden that ought not to be imposed upon the people of a community which has no relation to the litigation.”
• “Uniformity of process ... is assuredly not what the law of admiralty seeks to achieve, since it is supposed to apply in all the courts of the world.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).