United States Fifth Circuit

Customers intending to make a purchase were not deprived of their ability to enter into a contract on non-discriminatory terms under 42 U.S.C. section 1981, where a clerk did not actually interfere with an intended purchase, and a transaction was successfully completed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/05/2003
• Published 05/05/2003

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before SMITH, BARKSDALE and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Hal K. Gillespie (argued), Susan D. Motley, Gillespie, Rozen & Watsky, Dallas, TX, Gilbert Arrazolo, Aguilar Law Offices, Albuquerque, NM, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Michael Lutz Foreman (argued), Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ronald E. Manthey, Steven R. McCown, Paulo B. McKeeby (argued), Littler Mendelson, Dallas, TX, Warren Reid Williamson, ConocoPhillips, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.