Tara Menon v. Water Splash, Inc.

The only question that appellant Tara Menon presents for our review is whether service by mail to a defendant in Canada is permitted under Article 10(a) of the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (“the Service Convention”).1 The majority concludes that it is not.2 In reaching this result, the majority fails to follow the United States Supreme Court’s directions on the construction of treaties and the Texas Supreme Court’s instructions on the correct approach to decisions of the federal courts. Because Texas intermediate…