Inconvenient forum

  1. Law
  2. District of Columbia Code
  3. Procedure Generally. [Enacted title]
  4. Civil Jurisdiction and Service Outside the District of Columbia
  5. Bases of Personal Jurisdiction over Persons Outside the District of Columbia
  6. Inconvenient forum

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When any District of Columbia court finds that in the interest of substantial justice the action should be heard in another forum, the court may stay or dismiss such civil action in whole or in part on any conditions that may be just.

(July 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 549, Pub. L. 91-358, title I, § 132(a).)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 13-425.

1973 Ed., § 13-425.


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