is filing the bankruptcy case in a filing city other than the filing city for the court district or division that includes the debtor's headquarters. The debtor's "headquarters" are the "principal offices" of the debtor shown on the debtor's Form 8-K disclosing the bankruptcy filing. If no 8-K was filed, we investigated to discover the actual location of the debtor's headquarters on the date of filing.

Forum shopping is the informal name given to the practice adopted by some plaintiffs to get their legal case heard in the court thought most likely to provide a favourable judgment, or by some defendants who seek to have the case moved to a different court. This is an increasingly serious problem because it balances the concept of party autonomy against broader concerns of justice and fairness. Some states have become notorious as plaintiff-friendly jurisdictions and so have become litigation magnets even though there is little or no connection between the legal issues and the jurisdiction in which they are to be litigated.