Supreme Court of Texas

The Texas Free Enterprise and Antitrust Act will not support extraterritorial relief in the absence of a showing that such relief promotes competition in Texas or benefits Texas consumers. Texas courts, as a matter of interstate comity, will not decide how another state-s antitrust laws and policies apply to injuries confined to that state.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/09/2004
• Decided 10/20/2006
• Published 10/20/2006

Judges

• Justice HECHT delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice GREEN, Justice JOHNSON, and Justice WILLETT joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert Harrison Pemberton, Austin, Orrin L. Harrison III, David Ray McAtee, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Tyler A. Baker, Jeffrey S. Levinger, Joshua A. Imhoff, Carrington Coleman Sloman & Blumenthal, LLP, Dallas, Kenneth L. Glazer, Bryan R. Henry, Albert C. Loebe, Atlanta, GA, Jonathan M. Jacobson, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, New York, NY, Kay Lynn Brumbaugh, Jerry L. Beane, Andrews Kurth LLP, and P. Michael Jung, Strasburger & Price, L.L.P., Dallas, for Petitioner., R. Glen Rigby, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, Houston, David M. Gunn, David J. Beck, John Sidney Adcock, Beck, Redden & Secrest, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Kenneth W. Starr, Robert R. Gasaway, Elizabeth S. Petrela and Jennifer S. Atkins, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC, John J. Park, Jr., Office of Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey J. Angelovich, Nix Patterson & Roach, Daingerfield, William A. Durham, Eastham, Watson, Dale & Forney, Warren W. Harris, Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP, Jacalyn Ann Hollabaugh, Karen Ann Lister, Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P., Houston, C. Cary Patterson, Nelson J. Roach, Nix Law Firm, Daingerfield, and Thomas M. Stanley, Law Office of Thomas M. Stanley, Houston, for Respondent.