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EBRAHIM v. SHELL OIL CO.

Civ. A. No. H-93-2607.

847 F.Supp. 65 (1994)

Sammy EBRAHIM, et al., Plaintiffs, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Houston Division.

March 11, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. McDowell, Houston, TX, for plaintiffs.

George Edward Pickle, Shell Oil Co., Houston, TX, for defendants Shell Oil and Pecten Syria Petro. Co.

Phillip B. Dye, Jr., Houston, TX, for defendants Royal Dutch Petro., Syrian Petro., and Al Furat Petro. Co.

MEMORANDUM

HUGHES, District Judge.

1. Introduction.

An American is injured in an accident in Syria while working for an English subsidiary of an American company. In this action, Ebrahim sued seven companies, working his way back to an American company that is a fifth-generation stockholder of the foreign company that operated the rig where he fell. Because Ebrahim's theory of liability jettisons gratuitously the concept of corporate existence...

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