IN RE BASS

No. 02-0071.

113 S.W.3d 735 (2003)

In re Lee M. BASS, Lee M. Bass, Inc., and Palladian Corporation, Relators.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided July 3, 2003.

Rehearing Denied September 25, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Grable, Bart A. Rue, Todd W. Spake, Kelly Hart & Hallman, P.C., Fort Worth, Brenda L. Clayton, Austin, for Relator.

Roger Sherman Braugh, Jane Margaret Braugh, Sico White & Braugh, L.L.P., Jacobo G. Munoz, Hilliard & Munoz, Juan Enrique Mejia, David T. Bright, Watts & Heard, Corpus Christi, for Respondent.


Justice SCHNEIDER delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Texas Rules of Evidence protect trade secrets from discovery "if the allowance of the privilege will not tend to conceal fraud or otherwise work injustice." Tex.R. Evid. 507. We held in In re Continental General Tire, Inc., 979 S.W.2d 609 (Tex.1998), that a party asserting the trade secret privilege has the burden of proving that the discovery information sought qualifies...

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