1 These suits were initially brought in the Superior Court of California. On petitioner’s motion, they were removed to the United States District Court for the Central District of California and subsequently transferred to Pennsylvania.

2 102 S.Ct. 252, 261 n.12.

3 The private interest factors outlined by the Gilbert Court include the “relative ease of access to sources of proof; availability of compulsory process for attendance of unwilling, and the cost of obtaining the attendance of willing, witnesses; possibility of view of premises, if view would be appropriate to the action; and all other practical problems that make trial of a case easy, expeditious, and inexpensive.” Public interest factors include burden on the court’s calendar; the local interest in having localized controversies decided at home; the interest in having a diversity action decided in a forum that is at home with the law that governs; the avoidance of unnecessary conflicts of law, or the application of foreign law; and the unfairness of burdening citizens in unrelated forums with jury duty. 330 U.S. at 508–09.

4 102 S.Ct. at 265–66.