Kedy v. A.W. Chesterton Co., et al.

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The Rhode Island Supreme Court adopted the doctrine of forum non conveniens.

NCLC filed a brief supporting General Electric and urging the Rhode Island Supreme Court to join virtually every other jurisdiction in adopting the well-established forum non conveniens doctrine. In its brief, NCLC described the history of the doctrine and its virtually uniform acceptance. In this case, Canadian plaintiffs who suffered their injuries in Canada have taken advantage of Rhode Island’s apparent lack of such a doctrine to avoid litigating the issue in their home forum.