United States Fourth Circuit

In plaintiff's wrongful death suit alleging defendant was liable for its failure to adequately secure its franchise hotel from a terrorist attack, judgment dismissing the matter on the basis of forum non conveniens, and finding that Pakistan was an available, adequate, and far more convenient forum to hear the case, is reversed and remanded, where a proper forum non conveniens inquiry in this case, applying the heightened deference owing to a citizen plaintiff seeking suit in her home forum, does not establish "such oppressiveness and vexation to defendant as to be out of all proportion to the plaintiffs' convenience, which may be shown to be slight or nonexistent."

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/01/2013
• Published 05/01/2013

Judges

• GREGORY

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel