Citing the inconvenience and unnecessary cost of litigating across the Atlantic Ocean, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has asked an Ohio federal court to dismiss a proposed class action filed by workers at the company’s subsidiary plant in France. The workers allege their health has been damaged by exposure to chemicals there.
In a motion filed on July 16 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Goodyear invoked the doctrine of “forum non conveniens,” under which, the company said, “a court should decline to exercise its jurisdiction when trial in another forum will best serve the convenience of the parties and the court, and the ends of justice.”
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