Legal Opinion
Renato Acain v. International Plant Services, LLC, Noureddine Ayed, Karim Ayed, Richard Dale Johnston, Adrienne Wilson, and Leysander Bustamonte
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided November 7, 2014No. 01-13-00310-CVPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION ON REHEARING
REBECA HUDDLE, Justice.
Fifty-seven Filipino former employees of International Plant Services, LLC (IPS), a Texas company, sued IPS, MBC Human Resources Development Corporation (the Filipino agency that recruited them to work for IPS in Texas), and various individual defendants who owned or worked for IPS and MBC, alleging that they had been subjected to human trafficking by the defendants, and asserting various tort and contract claims arising out of their employment with IPS. The defendants moved to dismiss the case based on principles of international comity. The trial…
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