Former Houston Appellate Justice Takes Aim and Fires at Fort Worth Court’s ‘Unethical’ Opinion

Not one to tilt at windmills, nevertheless Murry Cohen would not give up.Three justices on the Fort Worth Court of Appeals were wrong, he believed: Not necessarily on the law in the personal-jurisdiction case in which he submitted an amicus brief. But he believed strongly they went too far in their further aside that ExxonMobil, as a mainstay of the vital Texas energy economy, deserved protection even if the company lost in their analysis that out-of-state defendants Exxon wanted to depose before suit in Texas lacked “sufficient” contacts with Texas to be deposed.As Cohen framed his issue: “Does it violate…