Supreme Court of Texas

The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) does not apply to a public utility's tariff provision limiting liability for personal injury resulting from the utility's ordinary negligence; therefore, the limitation on liability is not prima facie unconscionable under the UCC.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/07/2001
• Decided 03/28/2002
• Published 03/28/2002

Judges

• Justice BAKER delivered the opinion of the Court in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice HECHT, Justice OWEN, Justice HANKINSON, Justice O'NEIL and Justice RODRIGUEZ joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William H. Church, Jr., Thomas S. Leatherbury, Eric Thomas Stahl, Vinson & Elkins, Dallas, Stayton L. Worthington, Coghlan Crowson Fritzpatrick Westbrook & Worthington, Longview, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph L. Rosenfield, Dallas, for respondent.