523 U.S. 26 (1998) Cited 845 times 8 Legal Analyses
Holding that, because the remand requirement is absolute, the transferee court may not invoke the change-of-venue statute to assign transferred cases to itself for trial
Rejecting argument "that the district court erred in examining the MDL 834 record in ruling on" a motion to dismiss because "ample authority exists which recognizes that matters of public record, including court records in related or underlying cases which have a direct relation to the matters at issue, may be looked to when ruling on a 12(b) motion to dismiss"
Holding that, under Medlmmune, declaratory judgment jurisdiction existed based on a cease and desist letter plus defendant's suits against other manufacturers
28 U.S.C. § 1404 Cited 28,348 times 184 Legal Analyses
Granting Class Plaintiffs' motion to transfer action in order to "facilitate a unified settlement approval process together with the class action cases in" In re Amex ASR