Federal Judiciary

Sweet Home Chicago ... Baby, Didn't You Want To Go?

By Michael C. Smith

Come on
Oh baby don't you wanna go
Back to that same old place
Sweet home Chicago
Jackson v. Intel Corporation (2-08-cv-00154) (E.D. Tex. March 19, 2009)
Judge; T. John Ward
Holding: Motion to Transfer GRANTED.
Shades of Jake and Elwood in Judge Ward's latest venue opinion, in which he granted the defendant's motion to transfer venue to the plaintiff's sweet home of Illinois, noting that the considerations of judicial economy supported a transfer since the plaintiff had litigated with more than 75 parties over the patent in suit in the proposed transferee district. 

Full post as published by Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).