Opinion ID: 294274
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Heading: Propriety of the Refusal to Retransfer.

Text: 36 Title 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) provides for the transfer of a civil action to any district of proper venue [f]or the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice. Defendants argue that transfer of their earlier filed declaratory judgment action from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York was improper. If it was, defendants should have raised that issue in the Second Circuit, not here. Purex Corp. v. St. Louis Nat'l Stockyards Co., 374 F.2d 998, 1000, cert. denied, 389 U.S. 824, 88 S.Ct. 59, 19 L.Ed.2d 77 (1967). As to the propriety of the denial of their motion to retransfer by the district court for the Northern District of Illinois, we hold that the defendants did not sustain their burden of establishing the propriety of the retransfer. 19 37 The judgment of the district court is affirmed in all respects.