PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Jurisdiction & Venue
......Venue: Basic Rules
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Basic rules of venue.

Where parties agree to litigate in one of multiple statutorily permissible venues, venue selection clause in the K is valid and enforceable, and trial ct.'s decision to transfer case to the contractually agreed-upon venue was proper.

Whether action brought ••against a consumer defendant•• or ••by a consumer plaintiff••, venue provisions of CCP 395(b) apply as long as action arises from a consumer transaction specified in the statute.

Appropriate venue for lawsuit against SBE is in those cities or cities and counties in which AG maintains an office of legal staff—SBE's motion to transfer venue to SF, where AG had office, should have been granted.

Trial court erred in concluding that the venue selection clause was valid and binding and dispositive of the question of venue.

In statutory liability case, venue proper where the obligation P sought to enforce arose.

Contractual provision purporting to waive D's right to transfer action to neutral county is invalid.