United States Eleventh Circuit

A diversity tort action should have been dismissed under forum non conveniens, where the litigation entailed a Hong Kong-centered dispute, most of the evidence existed in Hong Kong, and the district court erred when it held that Hong Kong was an unavailable forum.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/30/2003
• Published 01/30/2003

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, COX and BRIGHT , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• William J. Boyce, D. Dudley Oldham, Anne M. Rodgers, Darryl Wade Anderson, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Marty Steinberg, Walfrido J. Martinez, Hunton & Williams, Mark Paul Schnapp, Greenberg & Traurig, Miami, FL, for Defendants-Appellants., Stuart M. Speiser, Scottsdale, AZ, Joel S. Perwin, Podhurst, Orseck, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow, Olin & Perwin, P.A., Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.