PHILADELPHIA – In the battle between Cozen O’Connor and a New York lawyer who joined the Philadelphia-based firm for 15 months, the firm suffered a setback in the first round of litigation when a federal judge in Philadelphia ruled that the case should be transferred to the Southern District of New York.
Judge Stewart Dalzell of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania concluded in his 14-page opinion in Cozen O’Connor v. Fischbein, 09-4931, that “venue is better in New York because most of theevents or omis-sions occurred there.”
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