By Chandria T. Jackson
10/24/2007

It is well settled procedure that plaintiffs have the first crack at choosing venue. That choice will stand so long as the plaintiffs choose a court of proper venue per the rules. However, failure to do so can lead to the splintering of a case into several fragments – with the plaintiffs prosecuting cases against different defendants in several different counties. And this is all possible thanks to the recently issued opinion by a panel of the Texas Ninth District Court of Appeals which found venue in Orange County improper in a multi-plaintiff, multi-defendant Benzene lawsuit. See Crown Central LLC, et al v. Anderson, No. 09-07-308CV, 2007 WL 2962804 (Tex.App.—Beaumont, October 11, 2007).


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