BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB CO. v. GOLDSTON

No. 2-98-248-CV.

983 S.W.2d 369 (1998)

BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY, Surgitek, Inc., Medical Engineering Corporation, CBI Medical, Inc., Natural Y/Aesthetech, Appellants, v. Tonya Lynne GOLDSTON and Foy Goldston, Melba Adams Currence and James Currence, Linda Ancell and Gregory Ancell, Lea Ash Danny Ash, Merry Angela Blair, Kimberly Boyle and Rick Boyle, Kenda Castles and Mike Castles, Rosemarie Chapman and Jackie Chapman, Danell Cook and David Cook, Patricia Dean, Janie Edwards and G. Don Edwards, Karen Fenoglio Johnson, Gerry Gamboa and Tony Gamboa, Kathy Gary and James Gary, Toni Halady and Robert C. Halady, II, Mable Jean Hall and T.E. Hall, Martha Harbison and Garett Harbison, the Estate of Bonnie Hodges Raymond Leon Hodges, Amelia Kay Hoyt and David Hoyt, Shelly Jackson Richard Jackson, Janis Gayle Johnson and Bob Johnson, Mary Elizabeth King and John King, Doris Kinzer and Albert Kinzer, the Estate of Sallie Lou Knox, Lynda Lynch And Jackey Lynch, Daphne Marsh and Leroy Marsh, Bonita May and Jimmy May, Elizabeth McCown and Harlan McCown, M. Sharon McNett and Ronnie McNett, Cathy Mills and Gary Mills, Dottie Murphy, Edith Rickels and Alvin Rickels, Jean Renee Routon and Arthur Edward Routon, Jo Schmidt and David Schmidt, Barbara Schoyen and James Schoyen, Sr., Patty Shipman and Ronnie Shipman, Jane Styles and David Styles, Kimberly Taylor and Michael Taylor, Patricia Thompson and Gerald Thompson, Audrey Torblaa and Robert Torblaa, Mary Watkins, Melynda Weaver, Linda Wilson, Belinda Worley and Ruben Worley, Donna Allen, Darlene Alderman, Janet Mcshan, Pam Koetter, Lisa Lois Price, Marian Stanley and George Stanley, Judy Strange, Carol Woodard, Debbie Loafman, Jo Lynn Watkins Cauble, and Pamela Cadle, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

December 31, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Strasburger & Price, L.L.P., Brian G. Hamilton, S. Vance Wittie, Dallas, for Appellant.

J. Patrick Hazel, J. Patrick Hazel, Austin, Texas, Anderson Law Firm, Hank Anderson, Wichita Falls, Texas, The Branch Law Firm, Turner W. Branch, Albuquerque, M.M., for Appellee.

Before LIVINGSTON, DAUPHINOT, and HOLMAN, JJ.


OPINION

LEE ANN DAUPHINOT, Justice.

INTRODUCTION

This is an interlocutory appeal from the trial court's order denying Appellants Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Surgitek, Inc., Medical Engineering Corporation, CBI Medical, Inc., and Natural Y/Aesthetech's ("Defendants")2 motions to transfer venue and motions to strike joinders and interventions. We are asked to decide whether breast implants are consumer goods under the Texas...

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