On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 10:44:48 AM UTC-4, Stephen Sprunk wrote:   
      
   > To an extent, it doesn't matter since courts are not allowed to even   
   > accept an employment discrimination case until the EEOC agrees, and they   
   > reject the vast majority of claims.  OTOH, if the EEOC allows a case to   
   > move forward, there's a high likelihood of winning--and the defendant   
   > will usually try to settle.   
      
   Some places have their own discrimination boards; Philadelphia has a Human   
   Relations Commission that pre-dates Federal stuff.   
      
      
   > ITYM defendant, since the plaintiff chooses where to file the case, and   
   > naturally they're going to pick the one that is most favorable to their   
   > interests, known as "venue shopping".   
      
   Well, a state case has to be filed in the relevant county per law.  The case   
   at hand dealt entirely with issues of a suburban nature, so the case had to be   
   filed in the county it occured, a suburban county.   
      
   FWIW, the Inquirer did a study and found that in tort cases, plaintiffs made   
   out much better within Philadelphia than elsewhere--more likely to win the   
   case, and more likely to win significantly bigger damages.  Undoubtedly a   
   reason why auto insurance in    
   Philadephia costs much more than in the suburbs, and many times as much as in   
   a rural county.   
      
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