Corporate defendants move cases to federal court where judges tolerate plaintiffs less.

Evidence

Cheeseman hoped to teach this young lawyer a painful lesson about dealing with companies like W. R. Grace. He decided first to remove the case from the state Superior Court to the federal court. W. R. Grace, with headquarters in New York and operations across the entire country, was entitled to federal jurisdiction. And the federal courts, Cheeseman believed, had a generally higher caliber of judges whose tolerance for personal injury cases of questionable merit was correspondingly lower. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 413

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the theme of forum and procedural leverage in civil litigation: jurisdiction is a strategic weapon before the merits are ever argued. — connects to: Forum choice between state and federal courts favored corporate defendants — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2378
• SHARE: A tidy litigation-strategy nugget for anyone who follows the Woburn case or tort procedure.

Broader Connections

• Forum choice between state and federal courts favored corporate defendants #corroborates (0.95) — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2378