Spencer v. Sytsma

. Justice BENDER,

dissenting:

Because no conflict exists between our statutory civil procedure rules of permissive joinder and venue, I respectfully dissent. The plain language of the permissive joinder and venue rules-consistent with their federal law counterparts-grant the trial court broad discretion to use both rules in tandem to choose between different locations to try multiple defendants in one action. Such a flexible interplay between these procedural rules comports with basic notions of efficiency, fairness, and common sense.

By characterizing venue as a "Jjurisdictional requirement,"…