Legal Opinion
Bayles v. K-Mart Corp.
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 16, 1986No. Civ. A. 86-0828PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
GASCH, Senior District Judge.
In this diversity ease, plaintiff, a Virginia resident, seeks to recover $20,000 for injuries that allegedly resulted from a fall that occurred in one of defendant’s retail stores on John Marr Drive in Annandale, Virginia. The complaint states, that, as plaintiff was shopping, she slipped on a plastic clothes hanger that was lying on one of the store’s aisles. Currently before the Court is defendant’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction or to transfer venue to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
DISCUSSION
A. Lack…
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