int. Litigation

a foreign client who escapes litigation in the United States can avoid

- Inconveniens of Litigation in the US

- Discovery dangers and expense

- possible punitive damages

It is a discretionary doctrine that allows a court to dismiss a case that might be more properly heard in another forum (such as another country)

Clerides v. Boeing Co. 534 F. 3d: a common law doctrine of forum non conveniens allows a trial court to dismiss a suit over which it would normally have jurisdiction if it best serves the conveniens of the parties and the ends of justice. 

- Availability of a foreign forum (are all the parties amenable to process and subject to the jurisdiction of that foreign forum)

- Adequacy of the foreign forum (the parties will not be deprived of remedies or be treatend unfairly)

= If an adequate alternative forum is available, the court will weigh private and public interest factors

- relative ease of access to sources of proof

- availability of compulsory process for attendance of unwillig witnesses

- cost of obtaining the assistance of willing witnesses

- possibilities to view the premises (if appropriate)

- other practial factors that make trial of a case easy, expenditious and inexpensive