Stangvik v. Shiley Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding a “presumption of convenience” in California where the defendant was incorporated and had its principal place of business in California
• relying on defendants' stipulations that they would all submit to jurisdiction in Sweden or Norway, as well as to tolling of the statute of limitations during pendency of the actions in California
• relying on defendants’ stipulations that they would all submit to jurisdiction in Sweden or Norway, as well as to tolling of the statute of limitations during pendency of the actions in California
• noting “California’s interest in deciding 13 actions against resident corporations whose conduct in this state causes injury to persons 14 in other jurisdictions.”
• stayed actions by foreign implantees in California even though the valve was manufactured in California because California’s interest in deterring wrongful conduct was not sufficient to keep the case
• sent foreign plaintiffs’ cases against Shiley back to their home countries to be tried

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).