Sheffer v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• finding that when one court has a quicker time to trial, and the other court has a quicker time to disposition, the congestion of the courts “factor is in equipoise” and is “not very helpful”
• finding that when one court has a quicker time to trial, and the other court has a quicker time to disposition, the congestion of the courts “factor is in equipoise” and is “not very helpful”
• “The convenience of the witnesses has been described as the most critical factor to examine when deciding a motion to transfer.” (internal quotation omitted)
• “The convenience of the witnesses has been described as the most critical factor to examine when deciding a motion to transfer.” (internal quotation omitted)
• “[A] multinational corporation ... has no real stake in having the case heard in either forum.”
• “[W]hen national significance attaches to a controversy, local interest can sometimes be diminished.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).