NEW ORLEANS — Amazon sought to transfer a wrongful death suit against it from a federal court in Louisiana to Mississippi on the argument that the suit should occur where the fatal accident between two 18-wheelers took place. But the court ruled that Amazon's own delay in moving for a transfer warrants denial of the motion alone. “This case has been pending for nearly 21 months,” but Amazon “does not provide any acceptable rationale why,” the judge wrote.
Read the ruling here.
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