(for-uhm nahn cahn-vee-nee-ehns) n. Latin for a forum which is not convenient. This
doctrine is employed when the court chosen by the plaintiff (the party suing) is
inconvenient for witnesses or poses an undue hardship on the defendants, who must
petition the court for an order transferring the case to a more convenient court.
A typical example is a lawsuit arising from an accident involving an out-of-state
resident who files the complaint in his/her home state (or in the defendant driver's
home state), when the witnesses and doctors who treated the plaintiff are in the
state where the accident occurred, which makes the latter state the most convenient
location for trial.
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