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Venue And Service Of Process In The Federal Courts -- Suggestions For Reform, Edward L. Barrett Jr.

Vanderbilt Law Review

In prescribing the rules governing the place of trial of actions commenced in the federal district courts, Congress might reasonably have been expected to follow one of two courses. On the one hand, it might have treated the continental United States as a single jurisdiction. On this basis service of process would have been permitted throughout the United States, venue rules would have been designed to channel litigation into the most convenient district, and provision would have been made for a motion for change of venue to be granted whenever the suit was commenced in a district which did not …