Yoder v. Briggs

How courts have described this case

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• noting courts accord less weight to plaintiff's choice of forum when it is not her residence or has little connection to the operative facts of the case
• “these factors should be applied and weighed in the context of the individualized circumstances of the particular case”
• “There is no indication that any non-party witnesses would refuse to appear and, thus, this factor is neutral.”
• “There is no indication that any non-party witnesses would refuse to appear and, thus, this factor is neutral.”
• “[T]he Court does not view this factor as particularly significant given the technological age in which we live, with the widespread use of, among other things, electronic document production.”
• “Where the selected forum is not connected in a meaningful way to the operative facts and is not the plaintiff’s residence, the deference to the chosen forum is significantly diminished.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).