A Galveston, Texas, judge tossed a judgment of more than $400 million an ex-wife secured two years ago against her former spouse and his family’s business based in Bahrain. Late in the afternoon July 27, the ex-wife filed an emergency motion asking an appeals court to issue a stay of the trial judge’s ruling, arguing it was “premature and procedurally improper” and that she will suffer substantial and irremediable harm if that stay is not granted, she argued.
Earlier this month, 306th District Judge Anne Darring in Galveston had tossed the judgment after the ex-husband’s lawyer argued the ex-wife had obtained that judgment and other victories through incessant forum shopping—specifically, filing for successive divorces against her ex in multiple Texas jurisdictions, without properly notifying him.
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