Legal Opinion
Coulibaly v. Malaquias
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided April 15, 1999No. 96-CV-1390PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUIZ, Associate Judge:
This is an appeal from an order of the trial court dismissing a complaint on the ground of forum non conveniens. Although we give the trial court significant deference on such discretionary rulings, we reverse the order of dismissal. We conclude that the trial court applied an incorrect legal standard and relied upon facts not in the record in fashioning its ruling. Furthermore, our examination of the relevant factors leads us to conclude that on this record it would be an abuse of discretion to dismiss the suit for forum non conveniens in favor of litigation in…
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