Michael Blaes v. Johnson & Johnson

SCHREIER, District Judge.

Defendants appeal from the district court’s order dismissing without prejudice Michael Blaes’s products liability action. Defendants claim that the court should not have granted the dismissal because Blaes was forum shopping. In the alternative, defendants contend that dismissal should have been conditioned on the payment by Blaes of defendants’ costs and fees. We find that the district court did not abuse its discretion when it dismissed the complaint without prejudice, but the district court should have analyzed whether costs and fees should have been awarded. We…