Legal Opinion
At & T CORP. v. Sigala
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided July 16, 2001No. S01A0464, S01A0465PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Fletcher, Chief Justice.
Cruz Sigala, Ligia Pacheco de Perez and other citizens of the Republic of Venezuela filed these wrongful death and personal injury actions against AT&T Corporation and its Atlanta employees as a result of a 1993 gas pipeline explosion in Venezuela. The defendants moved to dismiss on the basis of forum non conveniens, which the trial court denied due to the absence of statutory authority. We granted AT&T’s petition for certiorari to consider whether a Georgia trial court has the inherent authority to dismiss a lawsuit that nonresident aliens bring for injuries occurring…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- Piper Aircraft Co. v. ReynoSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Johnson v. EisentragerSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Silver v. Great American InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1972
- Pacheco De Perez v. AT&T Co.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1998
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