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Forum shopping is a colloquial term for the practice of litigants taking actions to have their legal case heard in the court they believe is most likely to provide a favorable judgment. Some jurisdictions have, for example, become known as "plaintiff-friendly" and thus have attracted plaintiffs to file new cases there, even if there is little ...
Law Practice Magazine (formerly Law Practice Management) [1] is a legal magazine published six times per year by the American Bar Association (ABA) Law Practice Division. [2] "Law Practice Magazine", subtitled "The Business of Practicing Law" focuses on law practice management, marketing, technology and finance issues. The magazine is based in ...
Otherwise, any users of online services could be brought into court wherever the relevant servers happen to be located, which the court found to be an unreasonable result. Holding: remote usage of server physically located in a forum state is insufficient to establish minimum contacts. CompuServe, Inc. v. Patterson, 89 F.3d 1257 (6th Cir. 1996 ...
In contract law, a forum selection clause (sometimes called a dispute resolution clause, choice of court clause, governing law clause, jurisdiction clause or an arbitration clause, depending on its form) in a contract with a conflict of laws element allows the parties to agree that any disputes relating to that contract will be resolved in a specific forum.
Libel tourism is a term, first coined by Geoffrey Robertson, to describe forum shopping for libel suits. It particularly refers to the practice of pursuing a case in England and Wales, in preference to other jurisdictions, such as the United States, which provide more extensive defenses for those accused of making derogatory statements.
Forum shopping, in United States law at least, is a robust concept with a substantial body of statutes and court-made doctrines designed to address it. While it is true that a child whose dad says no may go ask mom, the result that this would garner will vary completely from household to household, and no overriding body seeks to enforce a ...
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