Denial of civil change of venue request in pending appellate proceedings

The High Court of Cassation and Justice dismissed the petition for change of venue (strămutare) filed by a civil litigant concerning case No. 1978/97/2013 of the Hunedoara Court of Appeal, resulting in the refusal of the request and leaving the dispute at the original forum; the ruling is final with no avenue for appeal. The proceeding concerned a procedural motion seeking the transfer of a civil case from the Hunedoara Court of Appeal to another competent court, where the applicant argued for a venue change but the prosecutor and the court opposed the request. The decision was grounded in the procedural assessment of the change of venue request under the applicable Code of Civil Procedure, specifically rejecting the petition as unjustified following the analysis of the case's docket status and the court's discretionary power to refuse such transfers, thereby maintaining the jurisdiction of the Hunedoara Court of Appeal.