A $619 million legal malpractice case against Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads may be transferred out of the state despite opposition from the plaintiffs, a group of residents from a northeastern Pennsylvania town.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Martin Carlson of the Middle District of Pennsylvania filed a report and recommendation Monday finding the case should be transferred from his district to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The federal court in Manhattan is “the ‘home court’” where a bankruptcy case central to the plaintiffs’ claims was litigated, Carlson wrote.

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