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SWANK v. SVERDLIN

No. 01-99-00428-CV.

121 S.W.3d 785 (2003)

Mark SWANK; Marvin Chudnoff; Jeffrey Sussman; Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas Holdings; L.D.E. Associates, L.L.C.; and James McCoy, Jr., Appellants/Appellees, v. Anatoly SVERDLIN, Individually and Derivatively on Behalf of Automated Marine Propulsion Systems, Inc., Appellees/Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

Rehearing Overruled November 7, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Beck, Beck, Redden & Secrest, Jennifer Horan Greer, Kathy D. Patrick, Gibbs & Burns, L.L.P., Houston, David E. Keltner, Jose, Henry, Brantley & Keltner, Fort Worth, K. Chris Todd, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, Jack O'Neill, Byron C. Keeling, Clements, O'Neil, Pierce & Nickens, Frank G. Jones, Fulbright & Jaworski, Larry R. Veselka, Smyser, Kaplan & Veselka, L.L.P., Houston, Brendan V. Sullivan, Jr., John J. Buckley, Jr., Paul Mogin, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.

Alice Oliver-Parrott, Maria Teresa Arguindegui, Burrow & Parrott, L.L.P., John L. Hill, Mallory Wade Turner, Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP, Kevin McEvily, McEvily & Flowers, Houston, James E. Essig, Webster, for Appellee.

Panel consists of Justices HEDGES, JENNINGS, and EVANS.

OPINION

ADELE HEDGES, Justice.

In this commercial dispute, Mark Swank, Marvin Chudnoff, Jeffrey Sussman, Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas Holdings Corp., L.D.E. Associates, L.L.C., and James McCoy, Jr. appeal a judgment in favor of Anatoly Sverdlin individually and derivatively on behalf of Automated Marine Propulsion, Systems, Inc.1 We reverse and render.

Background

Anatoly Sverdlin, an engineer, came to Houston in...

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