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"We lawyers call it forum-shopping," says Richard Gonon , a lawyer for Accounts Recovery Bureau Inc., a Reading, Pa., medical debt-collection firm that has filed cases in Marion County.
In Debt Collecting, Location Matters Jessica Silver-Greenberg 2011
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One possibility: experimenting with specialist courts to reduce the dockets of the regional circuits, take pressure off the SCt, reduce pressure for forum-shopping, produce coherence in a field, and use expertise to decide cases more efficiently.
Rochelle Dreyfuss on the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Enactment of this proposed statute (and similar statutes in other states) will make such forum-shopping even more frequent.
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One possibility: experimenting with specialist courts to reduce the dockets of the regional circuits, take pressure off the SCt, reduce pressure for forum-shopping, produce coherence in a field, and use expertise to decide cases more efficiently.
Archive 2009-10-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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And since foreign law (and maybe even the laws of other states of the United States) has no value at all under this proposed statute, what we now see as forum-shopping will not even be subjected to that pejorative label.
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And since foreign law and maybe even the laws of other states of the United States has no value at all under this proposed statute, what we now see as forum-shopping will not even be subjected to that pejorative label.
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Enactment of this proposed statute and similar statutes in other states will make such forum-shopping even more frequent.
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This was clearly forum-shopping at its most blatant, and she did receive a favorable ruling from a CA bankruptcy court ... after all she was contesting a will executed in Texas so why wouldn't a CA bankruptcy court have jurisdiction?
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The company went on to condemn the plaintiffs in this case for "forum-shopping" and claimed that bringing the suit under the Alien Tort Claims Act was a "misuse of the U.S. judicial system."
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The company went on to condemn the plaintiffs in this case for "forum-shopping" and claimed that bringing the suit under the Alien Tort Claims Act was a "misuse of the U.S. judicial system."
Coca-Cola Co. Denies Involvement in Murder and Rape, Blames "U.S. Judicial System" 2010
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