Legal Opinion
Westinghouse Electric Corporation v. Honorable Stanley A. Weigel, United States District Judge for the Northern District of California
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 26, 1970No. 25456PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Per curiam
Petitioner seeks a writ of mandamus or prohibition nullifying respondent’s order transferring a civil action to the District Court for the District of Maine under 28 U.S.C. § 1404 (a). Petitioner has made a forceful presentation in this court in support of two contentions not advanced in the district court.
The first is that because the action was filed in a Superior Court of the State of California, and removed to the court below on the ground of diversity, the criteria to be applied in considering the motion for transfer should be those which would have been applied by the state court in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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3Cited by37 opinions
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