Legal Opinion
Preussag Aktiengesellschaft v. Coleman
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided May 5, 2000No. 01-99-00502-CVPublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MURRY B. COHEN, Justice.
Preussag Aktiengesellschaft (“Preussag AG”) takes this interlocutory appeal from an order denying its special appearance. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem.Code Ann. § 51.014(a)(7) (Vernon Supp.2000). The issue in this appeal is whether a German holding corporation, whose relations with its indirect 2 Texas subsidiaries are virtually its sole Texas contacts, must defend, in a Brazoria County court, a cause of action based on its sales of products to Iraq, when those products were allegedly converted to weapons and later used against American soldiers. We answer this…
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