TIG Insurance v. Brightly Galvanized Products, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ALESIA, District Judge.

Before the court is defendant Brightly Galvanized Products, Inc.’s (“Brightly”), motion to transfer this case to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Hammond Division, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a). For the reasons that follow, the court denies the motion to transfer.

I. BACKGROUND

In December 1994, Brightly was named as a defendant in The Ninth Avenue Remedial Group v. Allis Chalmers, No. 2:94 CV 0331 RL, an environmental contamination and clean-up lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the…