Supreme Court of Texas

A decision reinstating an award for plaintiff with modification in an action brought against a car dealer for breach of contract, fraud, and the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act, is reversed where, although plaintiff could assert her claim in several forms, she could not recover in all of them, and further, the court of appeals- judgment included exemplary damages exceeding the bounds of constitutional law and attorney-s fees exceeding the bounds of Texas law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/19/2005
• Decided 12/22/2006
• Published 12/22/2006

Judges

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

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Craig T. Enoch, Melissa Anne Prentice, Alejandro Sin Valdes, Joe Michels Jr., Roxanne T.L. Wilson, Winstead Sechrest & Minick, P.C., Austin, and William T. Green III, Houston, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kristin Bays, J. Randal Bays, Bays and Bays, Conroe, for Respondent.