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JOHNSTON v. MULTIDATA SYSTEMS INTERN. CORP.

No. 07-41232.

523 F.3d 602 (2008)

Velkis JOHNSTON; Natasha Chandler; Minverva Chandler; Walter Chandler; Cecilia Cruz Navarro De Vergara; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. MULTIDATA SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL CORP.; MDS Nordion, Inc.; MDS Canada, Inc.; MDS, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 7, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Christopher Sparks (argued), Joseph Jefferson Fisher, Provost Umphrey, Beaumont, TX, Francis Isadore Spagnoletti, Spagnoletti & Co., Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Alice E. Loughran (argued), Charles G. Cole, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, DC, Clayton E. Dickey, Matthew A. Culp, Matthew S. Jensen, Rasmussen, Willis, Dickey & Moore, Kansas City, MO, for Multidata Systems Intern. Corp.

James Richard Watkins, William Powell Glenn, Jr., Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, Galveston, TX, Jeffrey Karl Suess (argued), Rynearson, Suess, Schnurbusch & Champion, St. Louis, MO, for MDS Canada, Inc., MDS, Inc. and MDS Nordion, Inc.

Before KING, STEWART and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

KING, Circuit Judge:

Defendants-appellants Multidata Systems International Corp., MDS Inc., MDS (Canada) Inc., and MDS Nordion Inc. (collectively "Defendants") appeal the district court's interlocutory order refusing to dismiss this case: (1) for lack of personal jurisdiction; (2) as barred by the doctrines of res judicata and direct estoppel; and (3) for forum non conveniens. Because we find that Texas cannot exercise general...

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