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IN RE CHINESE-MANUFACTURED DRYWALL PRODUCTS

No. 12-31213.

753 F.3d 521 (2014)

In re CHINESE-MANUFACTURED DRYWALL PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION. Taishan Gypsum Company, Limited; Tai'An Taishan Plasterboard, Company, Limited, Defendants-Appellants v. David Gross; Cheryl Gross; Lois Velez, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees. In re Chinese-Manufactured Drywall Products Liability Litigation. Taishan Gypsum Company, Limited, Defendant-Appellant v. Mitchell Company Incorporated, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellee. In re Chinese-Manufactured Drywall Products Liability Litigation. Taishan Gypsum Company, Limited; Tai'An Taishan Plasterboard, Company, Limited, Defendants-Appellants v. Kenneth Wiltz, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Barbara Wiltz, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 20, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick S. Longer , Arnold Levin , Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman, Philadelphia, PA, Leonard Arthur Davis , Russ M. Herman, Esq. , Senior Attorney, Herman Herman & Katz, L.L.C., Brooke C. Tigchelaar , Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann , L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Steven L. Nicholas, Esq. , George M. Dent, III , David George Wirtes, Jr., Esq. , Cunningham Bounds, L.L.C., Mobile, AL, Elizabeth Joan Cabraser , Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, L.L.P., San Francisco, CA, Jonathan David Selbin , Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann, & Bernstein, L.L.P., New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Frank T. Spano , Courtney Lynne Colligan , Joe Cyr , Hogan Lovells US, L.L.P., New York, NY, Thomas Patrick Owen, Jr., Esq. , Richard C. Stanley, Esq. , Stanley, Reuter, Ross, Thornton & Alford, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Ervin Amado Gonzalez , Colson Hicks Eidson , Coral Gables , FL, Elliot H. Scherker , General Attorney, Greenberg Traurig, L.L.P., Miami, FL, for Amicus Curiae.

Before SMITH, DeMOSS, and HIGGINSON, Circuit Judges.

HIGGINSON, Circuit Judge:

This appeal encompasses three cases in the Chinese Drywall multidistrict litigation — Mitchell, Gross, and Wiltz. Picking up where we left off in Germano v. Taishan Gypsum Company, Ltd., 742 F.3d 576 (5th Cir.2014) (affirming as to a fourth), we hold that personal jurisdiction lies over Taishan Gypsum Company, Limited and Tai'an Taishan Plasterboard Company, Limited, in their respective...

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