# Pedro Menendez Rodriguez v. Pan American Life Insurance Company, Maria Cristina Vento Jaime v. Pan American Life Insurance Company

> Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · December 20, 1962 · 311 F.2d 429

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9448976

## Case

- **Full name:** Pedro MENENDEZ RODRIGUEZ, Appellant, v. PAN AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee; Maria Cristina VENTO JAIME, Appellant, v. PAN AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- **Decided:** December 20, 1962
- **Citations:** 311 F.2d 429
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Cameron
- **Judges:** Bell, Cameron, Carswell, Per Curiam
- **Cited by:** 54 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Vacated on other grounds by PAN-AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE CO. v. Rodriguez, 376 U.S. 779 (1964).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9448976

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- concluding that Cuban refugees could not “obtain justice” from post- revolutionary Cuban courts such that the district court’s forum non conveniens dismissal in favor of those courts was inappropriate
- holding that Fidel Castro’s Cuba was an inadequate alternative forum for a Cuban refugee
- finding that political refugees could receive a fair hearing in Cuba
- noting also that “transfers to other federal courts are quick and ready tools for our trial courts under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a)”

## Opinion text

CAMERON, Circuit Judge.
I concur in the result.

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