Law School Admission Council, Inc. v. Tatro

MEMORANDUM

KEARNEY, District Judge.

The parties, centrally involved in the rite of passage for lawyers known as the Law School* Admission Test, posit a federal jurisdiction and venue question with an overlay of deference to a prior filed action between them. Our study confirms we must first ascertain personal jurisdiction and venue, and then consider venue transfer based on a prior filed pending action. After testing applicable principles, we exercise personal jurisdiction over Defendant and find venue appropriate. But because Defendant here first filed an action in California against the…