Appeals Panel Vacates Dismissal Of Executors’ Suit Against Trusts Over Forum

Mealey's (March 18, 2019, 10:50 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 15 overturned a district judge’s ruling dismissing a lawsuit brought by the executors of the estate of a Taiwanese plastics magnate and billionaire against trusts he formed before his death, finding that the judge abused his discretion by not giving appropriate weight to the executors’ choice of forum and when weighing the public and private interest factors in favor of dismissal (Robert Shi v. New Mighty U.S. Trust, et al., No. 18-7066, U.S. App. D.C. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 7659)...