371 Pa. Super. 583 - Brown v. Delaware Valley Transplant Program’s Empirical Analysis

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28 state decisions

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1. “(1) the plaintiff's choice of forum should be given significant weight; (2) the interests of the parties should be considered, including relative ease of access to sources of proof, availability of compulsory process for the attendance of unwilling witnesses, cost of obtaining attendance of willing witnesses . . . enforceability of a judgment, and any other problem which affects the ease, celerity or expense of the litigation; and (3) public interest; litigation should not be piled up in congested centers rather than being handled at its origin [and] jury duty should not be imposed on the people of a community which has no relation to the litigation.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 393 Pa. Super. 520 - Flaxman v. Burnett · 441 Pa. Super. 258 - McCrory v. Abraham

2. “[t]he supreme court has described the heavy burden facing the appellant from a discretionary trial court determination: “[I]t is not sufficient to persuade the appellate court that it might have reached a different conclusion if, in the first place, charged with the duty imposed on the court below; it is necessary to go further and show an abuse of the discretionary power.” Mackarus’s Estate, 431 Pa. 585, 596 , 246 A.2d 661, 666-67 (1968), quoting Garrett’s Estate, 335 Pa. 287, 292-93 , 6 A.2d 858, 860 (1939). If there is any basis for the trial court’s decision, the decision must stand. Id.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 420 Pa. Super. 540 - Wills v. Kaschak · 406 Pa. Super. 500 - Cinousis v. Hechinger Department Store