427 Pa. Super. 71 - Scribner v. MacK Trucks’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Okkerse v. Howe · Purcell v. Bryn Mawr Hospital · 363 Pa. Super. 277 - Petty v. Suburban General Hospital
Most-quoted passages
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“[o]ur Rules of Civil Procedure provide a plaintiff with options as to where to bring suit, and this Court has emphatically stated that the choice of forum by a plaintiff is entitled to weighty consideration. [A plaintiff] should not be deprived of the advantages presumed to come from [his or her original] choice “unless the defendant clearly adduces facts that ‘either (1) establish such oppressiveness and vexation to a defendant as to be out of all proportion to plaintiffs convenience ... or (2) make trial in the chosen forum inappropriate because of considerations affecting the court’s own private and public interest factors’ [but ] unless the balance is strongly in favor of the defendant, the plaintiff’s choice of forum should rarely be disturbed” Thus, the party seeking a change of venue bears a heavy burden of justifying the request, and it has been consistently held that this burden includes the demonstration on the record of the claimed hardships.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““For the convenience of parties and witnesses the court upon petition of any party may transfer an action to the appropriate court of any other county where the action could originally have been brought.” (emphasis added)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he relative ease of access to sources of proof, availability of compulsory process for attendance of unwilling, and the cost of obtaining attendance of willing, -witnesses; possibility of view of premises, if a view would be appropriate to the action; and all other practical problems that make trial of a case easy, expeditious and inexpensive. There may also be a question as to the enforceability of a judgment if one is obtained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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