Judge Rules State, Not Federal, Venue Appropriate for Chemical Spill Case

Relying on congressional intent to avoid an absurd result from the literal reading of a statute, a federal judge remanded a case to state court in a decision that magnifies a division in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania over the "forum defendant rule."

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