Opinion ID: 432088
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Convenient and Effective Relief for Plaintiffs.

Text: 55 Undoubtedly, a California court affords appellants the most convenient and effective site for judicial relief. Not only is important evidence present in the United States, but concerns for appellants' personal comfort and convenience argue in favor of a United States forum. As this court observed in Raffaele, Individual claimants 'would be at a severe disadvantage if they were forced to follow the ... [defendant] to a distant state in order to hold it legally accountable. When claims were small or moderate individual claimants frequently could not afford the cost of bringing an action in a foreign forum--thus in effect making the company judgment proof.'  Raffaele, 707 F.2d at 399 (quoting McGee v. International Life Ins. Co., 355 U.S. 220, 223, 78 S.Ct. 199, 201, 2 L.Ed.2d 223 (1957)). Access to a California court is important to appellants for obtaining relief. 56 Finally, appellants' likelihood of enforcing a judgment against Mexico also bears on the effectiveness of a California court as a forum for resolving the dispute. I.N.A., 649 F.2d at 1273. Mexico is not immune to jurisdiction and thus enforcement of a judgment is not barred. Mexico has not shown how a judgment against it is unenforceable and thus we cannot conclude that such enforcement is so unlikely as to weigh against the reasonableness of jurisdiction. 57