Global Forum Shopping

Global forum shopping is a disturbing new trend in which foreign plaintiffs take advantage of the unusually expansive features of the American judicial system to file lawsuits in U.S. courts. The court system has become a magnet for foreign plaintiffs due to the U.S. legal system’s extensive pre-trial discovery processes; openness to trials by jury; and penchant for allowing punitive damages, class actions and outlandish awards.

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  Washington Post  |  February 17, 2009
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