Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft v. Olson

Justice Hecht, joined by Justice Owen, dissenting from an Order of the Court striking the petition for review and requiring that it be redrawn.

This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of petitioner’s special appearance. Petitioner asserts that this Court has jurisdiction over the appeal because the court of appeals’ decision conflicts with six prior decisions of other courts of appeals on material questions of law.1 The jurisdictional statement in the petition for review, filed July 31, 2000, explains the nature of the conflicts in just over five pages. Respondents filed a waiver of…