Legal Opinion
Energy Coal S P A v. CITGO Petroleum Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 1, 2016No. 15-30863PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREGG COSTA, Circuit Judge:
An Italian energy company contracted to provide various services in Venezuela for a subsidiary of the state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, which is called PDVSA. After it allegedly did not receive the $186 million owed under the contracts, the Italian company filed suit in Louisiana. Why did the Italian company' file suit in a forum located many thousands of miles away from both where it is headquartered and where it performed the contracts? To try and take advantage of the single business enterprise theory under which Louisiana courts have allowed…
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