Supreme Court of Texas

Because plaintiffs who purchased faulty dental practice management software products failed to demonstrate, as Rule 42(b)(4) requires they must, "that the questions of law or fact common to the members of the class predominate over any questions affecting only individual members, and that a class action is superior to other available methods for the fair and efficient adjudication of the controversy," the class is decertified and remanded to the district court.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/06/2002
• Decided 10/31/2002
• Published 10/31/2002

Judges

• Justice HECHT delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice OWEN, Justice JEFFERSON, and Justice RODRIGUEZ joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christopher Blair Dancy,E. Lee Parsley, Austin, Kirsten M. Castaneda, Jerry K. Clements, Cynthia Keely Timms, Dallas, Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP, Mike A. Hatchell, Molly H. Hatchell, Hatchell P.C., Tyler, Harry M. Reasoner, Charles W. Schwartz, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joe K. Longley, Philip K. Maxwell, Longley & Maxwell, Donald R. Taylor, Karen Crook Burgess, Bruce Emory Garlick, David E. Dunham, Taylor & Dunham, Austin, for respondents.