Aaronii v. Directory Distributing Associates, Inc.

OPINION

Kem Thompson Frost, Chief Justice

In this appeal we address two issues of first impression. The first relates to the potential federal preemption of a Texas venue statute. The second involves the constitutionality of applying the state venue statute in the context of the federal statute’s collective-action procedure. Acting under section 15.008 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, which governs venue in civil cases involving multiple plaintiffs, the trial court dismissed, without prejudice, the claims of thousands of “opt-in plaintiffs” in a collective action filed under the…