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Civil Procedure 2021
Resource 5 . 9 . 2 . 2
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The Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Co.

I. Glenn Cohen

In Bremen v. Zapata Off-Shore Co and Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute, the Court considered “forum-selection clauses,” contractual provisions in which one or more parties agrees to submit to personal jurisdiction in a particular forum (or forums). These cases were decided against a history of hostility to these agreements; courts often refused to enforce them.

Supreme Court of the United States
407 U.S. 1, 32 L. Ed. 2d 513, 92 S. Ct. 1907, 1972 U.S. LEXIS 114, SCDB 1971-133
No. 71-322
1972-06-12

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