Supreme Court of Texas

A District of Columbia corporation, with its principal place of business in Maryland, did not have sufficient minimum contacts with Texas to justify the exercise of personal jurisdiction in a products liability and negligence action by Gulf War veterans, for exposure to pathogens.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/13/2002
• Decided 07/03/2002
• Published 07/03/2002

Judges

• Justice JEFFERSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Randy Edward Moore, The Moore Law Firm, Angleton, Samuel M. Sipe, Jr., Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, DC, Gordon R. Pate, Joe Michael Dodson, Pate and Dodson, Beaumont, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• H. Ronald Welsh, Thad T. Dameris, Vinson & Elkins, William Key Wilde, Tracie J. Renfroe, Michael Vincent Young, Bracewell & Patterson, J. Palmer Hutcheson, Gardere Wynne Sewell & Riggs, Kenneth Tekell, Tekell Book Matthews & Limmer, John T. McDowell, McDowell Collmer, Francis I. Spagnoletti, Spagnoletti & Associates, Timothy F. Lee, Ware Snow Fogel & Jackson, LLP, H. Daniel Spain, Melanie Virginia Waggoner, Spain & Hastings, Kathy D. Patrick, Gibbs & Bruns, Tom Bayko, Bayko Gibson Carnegie Hagan Schoonmaker & Meyer, Ronald E. Cook, Cook & Roach, Andrew R. Harvin, Doyle Rider Restrepo Harvin & Robbins, L.T.“ Butch” Bradt, L.T. Bradt, P.C., Marc A. Sheiness, Sheiness Scott, et al., Otway B. Denny, Jr., Samuel E. Stubbs, Fullbright & Jaworski, C. Ed Harrell, Hughes, Watters & Askanase, John G. Bissell, John W. Bridger, Strong Pipkin Nelson Bissell & Ledyard, John A. Irvine, Porter & Hedges, Murray Fogler, McDade Fogler Maines, Phillip Dye, Jr., Vinson & Elkins, Peter E. Strand, James T. Liston, Jerry Von Sternberg, Gary R. Proctor, Karan Cummings Ciotti, Houston, John R. Gilbert, Gilbert & Moore, Angleton, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr., Lewis & Williams, Galveston, James E. (Buster) Brown, Law Offices of James E.“ Buster” Brown, Vaughan O. Stewart, Lake Jackson, John Arthur Eaves, Jackson, MS, Carlos Garza, Texas City, Brian J. Hurst, Mark D. Taylor, Baker & McKenzie, Jerald Michael Rasansky, Dallas, Mitchell A. Toups, Steven C. Toups, Weller Green Toups & Terrell, Beaumont, Andrew Robert Spector, Miami, FL, for Respondent.