in Re Venator Materials, PLC

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: March 2, 2020
• Docket: 05-19-01284-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

Order entered March 2, 2020

In The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas

No. 05-19-01284-CV

IN RE VENATOR MATERIALS, PLC, Relator

On Appeal from the 134th Judicial District Court Dallas County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. DC-19-02030

ORDER Before Justices Bridges, Osborne, and Carlyle

Before the Court is relators’ unopposed motion to abate this proceeding,

pending issuance of the mandate in a related appeal, cause number 05-19-01177-

cv, the “Related Appeal.” Relators explain they request abatement so as to allow

those parties over whom this Court determined jurisdiction existed1 to transfer this

proceeding to the Beaumont Court of Appeals once the underlying proceeding is

transferred to Montgomery County.

1 In the Related Appeal, this Court determined jurisdiction existed over the Huntsman Corporation, Huntsman International LLC, and Huntsman (Holdings) Netherlands B.V. (collectively, the “Huntsman Appellants”). We determined jurisdiction did not exist over Venator Materials PLC, Simon Turner, Kurt Ogden, Stephen Ibbotson, and Russ Stolle (collectively, the “Venator Appellants”). 1 We GRANT the motion. To ensure proper disposition of this proceeding, we

ORDER, within fifteen days of the issuance of the mandate in the Related

Appeal, the Venator Appellants to file a motion to dismiss this proceeding, and the

Huntsman Appellants to file, in accordance with the procedure stated in Miles v.

Ford Motor Co., 914 S.W.2d 135, 137 n.2 (Tex. 1995), their motion to transfer.

We ABATE the appeal pending further order of the Court.

/David L. Bridges/ DAVID L. BRIDGES JUSTICE