Shubert v. JC PENNEY CO., INC.

OPINION

GRANT, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order granting the appellees/defendants’ motion to transfer venue. Shubert contends that the district court erred by transferring venue over additional plaintiffs to Collin County because the addition of newly joined plaintiffs is not analogous to the filing of a “new suit”; thus the amended venue provisions do not apply, and transfer was improper.

The plaintiffs/appellants in this case work or worked for J.C. Penney. The company moved its corporate headquarters to Plano in 1992, and employees began working in a new complex of buildings before…