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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I was just responding to Icky's premise. I know nothing about State Court. Fun Fact- I've been practicing since a time when Bilmore could still get erections, but I only now have my first case in state court!
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Yeah it was a joke. PLF got it. I am pretty sure it'd be hard to move a case from one state to another.
In fact I have experience with that.
Cases I handle, there isn't a single exposure, like food poisoning; rather there's a long period of exposure that lead to disease, sort of like obesity.
We file a case in NY based on some tangential exposure there. The guy lived in Alabama, with the majority of this tort happening there. Defendants move to have the case dismissed and refiled in Alabama. We say "make the defendants agree to Alabama," so the judge says "Sure."
Case is refiled in Alabama, where Alabama defense lawyer says "Wait, the IMPORTANT exposure is in NY, dismiss it judge, and _I_ never agreed to Alabama" so the judge says "GTFO, plaintiff. Bye."
So now what, we refile in Cook County IL where the judges don't seem to give a fuck. There are 5 firms splitting the fee and who the fuck knows what's gonna happen.
