Derivative suit transferred to D. Delaware
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The claim, verbatim
The SDNY court ordered the derivative action transferred to the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware under the forum selection clause and closed the SDNY case; defendants took no position on the transfer.
Source (primary)
Joseph v. Leverton — Entry #11: ORDER: Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that this action shall be transferred to the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (RECAP, court_filing)
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Quote: “it is hereby ORDERED that this action shall be transferred to the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 16, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The order transfers the derivative case to the District of Delaware based on the forum selection clause, directs the Clerk to close the SDNY case, and notes that defendants took no position on transfer.
Confirmed in the source:
- The action is a shareholder derivative action brought in the Southern District of New York
- The SDNY court ordered the action transferred to the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
- The transfer relied on the forum selection clause, citing the rule that courts should ordinarily transfer to the forum a valid forum selection clause specifies
- The Clerk of Court was directed to close the SDNY case
- Defendants took no position regarding transfer
What we did: Read our cached copy of RECAP (https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.nysd.620055/gov.uscourts.nysd.620055.11.0.pdf) in full (2,934 characters, retrieved October 14, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Joseph v. Leverton — Entry #11: ORDER: Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that this action shall be transferred to the United States District Court for the District of Delaware
Quote: “it is hereby ORDERED that this action shall be transferred to the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.”
