Legal Opinion
Gulf Insurance Company v. David Glasbrenner and Susan Glasbrenner, the Caldor Corporation F/k/a Caldor, Inc., Docket No. 04-0070-Cv
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 2, 2005No. 353PublishedCited by 321 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MESKILL, Circuit Judge.
In 1990, Congress amended the statute that dictates where venue lies in federal civil suits, 28 U.S.C. § 1391. Although those amendments are not particularly complicated, they are significant and we have previously addressed them only briefly. We do so at length now, and conclude that venue may properly lie in any judicial district in which significant events or omissions material to the plaintiffs claim have occurred. Because the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Stanton, J. — which dismissed this suit for improper venue — seemingly…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Sunward Electronics, Inc. v. Keith L. McDonald Robert D. McDonald and Dog Guard Out-Of Site Fencing, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2004
- Olberding v. Illinois Central RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
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