(July 18, 2017, 12:20 PM EDT) -- DALLAS — A Texas appeals court on July 14 affirmed that a Rhode Island plaintiff’s law firm consented to the jurisdiction of Texas courts when it signed on as counsel in Kugel hernia mesh cases filed by a Texas law firm (John E. Deaton, et al. v. Barry Johnson, et al., No. 15-16-01221, Texas App., 5th Dist., 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 6540)....