Supreme Court of Texas

A suit cannot be brought in Texas based on a nonresident's alleged misrepresentations in a telephone call with a Texas resident.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/06/2005
• Decided 05/27/2005
• Published 05/27/2005

Judges

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

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William G. Rossick, Watson & Rossick, Austin, Charles A. Watson, Kelly Michael Kowis, Watson, Kowis & Rossick, Houston, Larry D. Thompson, and Robert G. Smith Jr., Lorance & Thompson, P.C., Houston, for Petitioner., Craig Madison Patrick, Craddock Reneker & Davis, L.L.P., Dallas, and Evelyn L. Becker, O'Melveney & Myers LLP, Washington, DC, for Others.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brock C. Akers and Neal Kieval, Phillips & Akers, P.C., Houston, for Respondent.