Moreno v. Baker Tools, Inc.

OPINION

O’CONNOR, Justice.

This Court is asked to determine whether the trial court abused its discretion when it temporarily enjoined 1 Santiago Moreno from pursuing any court proceedings in Ecuador. We hold it did. We declare the temporary injunction void and we order that it be dissolved.

1. The background

Santiago Moreno, an Ecuadorian national, filed a defamation suit in Harris County district court in 1989. In the suit, Moreno alleged that Baker Transworld, Inc. (BTI), Ernest P. Gaston, an employee of BTI (collectively the BTI-Gaston defendants), and other defendants, gave Moreno’s…