561 F. Supp. 2d 559 - Galustian v. Peter’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The complained-of conduct occurred in Iraq. The defendant, the judge who purportedly signed the warrant, the translator who translated the warrant, and the investigators whom the plaintiff claims determined it was false, are all in Iraq. The recipients of the email and the evidence of the plaintiffs (or, more accurately, ISI’s) losses, are all in Iraq. Furthermore, most, if not all, of the witnesses, including those affiliated with SkyLink Group, are beyond this court’s power to order compulsory process. In short, trial of this matter in Iraq would be the easiest, most expeditious, and most inexpensive manner of resolving this dispute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 750 F. Supp. 2d 670 - Galustian v. Peter

2. “may rule on the forum non conveniens issue without decisively ruling on the conflict-of-laws issue, thereby avoiding an improper application of applicable foreign law or unnecessarily addressing an undecided issue of Virginia law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 750 F. Supp. 2d 670 - Galustian v. Peter

3. “The Virginia courts have yet to address the lex loci rule in the context of multistate defamation by means of mass communication.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gilmore v. Jones