STEWART ORGANIZATION, INC. v. RICOH CORP.

No. 85-7231.

779 F.2d 643 (1985)

The STEWART ORGANIZATION, INC., a corporation; Walter H. Stewart, and James S. Snow, Jr., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. RICOH CORPORATION, a corporation, Ricoh of America, Inc., a corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearing Granted March 14, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph H. Yeilding, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, Scott M. Phelps, Birmingham, Ala., for defendants-appellants.

Joseph W. Letzer, Thomas, Taliaferro, Forman, Burr & Murray, Janet L. Humphreys, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, JOHNSON, Circuit Judge, and TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing En Banc Granted March 14, 1986.*

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

This case represents another episode in a dialectic that has engaged the federal courts for fourteen decades—the precise scope of the laws governing federal court decisions in diversity actions. Specifically, this case requires us to decide whether a freely negotiated contractual choice of forum clause is enforceable in diversity actions in federal court...

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