Using Brooklyn as the venue for a federal lawsuit filed by a resident who alleges that Border Patrol agents mistreated her after her arrest in Texas would not inconvenience the U.S. government, a judge has concluded.
Denying the government’s request to move proceedings to the Southern District of Texas in Flores v. United States, 14-cv-3166, Eastern District Judge Jack Weinstein wrote that the case demonstrates the decreasing importance of changes of venue for the purposes of convenience given the availability of testimony by video.
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