Supreme Court of Texas

In a suit brought against AutoNation under an employment contract, a petition for mandamus relief from a decision refusing to dismiss or stay the matter and enjoining AutoNation from pursuing its first-filed Florida suit to enforce a covenant not to compete contained in the same employment contract is granted as mandamus relief was appropriate, and a mandatory forum-selection clause in the parties' freely negotiated contract should be respected.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/19/2006
• Decided 06/29/2007
• Published 07/06/2007

Judges

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

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ruth Ann Norton Daniels, Jonni Lynn Walls, Amanda Maxine Inabnett, Gibson McClure Wallace & Daniels, L.L.P., Charles T. Frazier Jr., Cowles & Thompson, P.C., Dallas, for Relators., Andrew S. Golub, Amy Elizabeth Hawk, J.W. Beverly, Dow, Golub, Berg & Beverly, LLP, Geoffrey Alan Berg, Houston, Craig T. Enoch, Winstead Sechrest & Minick, P.C., Austin, for Real Party in Interest.