In Re EI Du Pont De Nemours and Co.

in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice ENOCH, Justice OWEN, Justice HANKINSON, Justice O’NEILL, Justice JEFFERSON, and Justice SCHNEIDER joined.

Some 8,000 plaintiffs in five related cases pending in two trial courts in Orange County and Jefferson County have sued relator and more than 80 other defendants for damages from exposure to asbestos. Relator moved to dismiss the plaintiffs’ claims against it under section 71.052 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code on the ground that the claims were commenced after August 1, 1995, and arose outside Texas at a time when plaintiffs were not…