Legal Opinion
Kuwaiti Engineering Group v. Consortium of International Consultants, LLC
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 29, 2008PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol R. Edmead, J.), entered March 19, 2007, which granted the motion of defendant Safege Consulting Engineers (Safege) to dismiss the complaint on forum non conveniens grounds, unanimously modified, on the law and the facts, to the extent of conditioning the order of dismissal upon defendants’ consent to jurisdiction of the courts of Kuwait and France, and otherwise affirmed, with costs in favor of defendants, payable by plaintiff.
Dismissal of the complaint on forum non conveniens grounds (CELR 327 [a]) was a provident exercise of discretion in this…
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