A defamation lawsuit against Kinney Recruiting and Robert Kinney, filed by a recruiter who formerly worked for the Texas-based search firm, can proceed in Hong Kong following an opinion late Nov. 6 from the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

In an unpublished opinion, a three-judge panel of the federal appeals court vacated and remanded an foreign antisuit injunction, which U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman of the Western District of Texas had imposed last year.