SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO. v. TEXAS INTERN. AIRLINES, INC.

No. CA 3-75-0340-C.

396 F.Supp. 678 (1975)

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO., Plaintiff, Texas Aeronautics Commission, Intervenor, v. TEXAS INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES, INC., et al.

United States District Court, N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

June 5, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Hauer, Clarice M. Davis and William Michael Byrd, Jr., Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Dallas, Tex., and Herbert D. Kelleher and Gary A. Barron, Oppenheimer, Rosenberg, Kelleher & Wheatley, Inc., San Antonio, Tex., for Southwest Airlines Co.

John L. Hill, Atty. Gen., David M. Kendall, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Rex H. White, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for Texas Aeronautics Commission.

Sam Coats, Vice Pres. & Gen. Counsel, Houston, Tex., and George W. Bramblett, Jr., Haynes & Boone, Dallas, Tex., and Phillip Robinson, Robinson, Felts, Starnes & Wilson, Austin, Tex., for Texas International Airlines, Inc.

Eugene Jericho, Strasburger, Price, Kelton, Martin & Unis, Dallas, Tex., and Jerry C. Prestridge and Donald S. Thomas, Clark, Thomas, Denius, Winters & Shapiro, Austin, Tex., and Robert S. Harkey, Law Dept., Delta Air Lines, Inc., Atlanta, Ga., for Delta Air Lines, Inc.

R. A. Lempert and H. Wayne Wile, Asst. Gen. Counsel, American Airlines, Inc., New York City, for American Airlines, Inc.

David N. Brictson, Frontier Airlines, Inc., Denver, Colo., for Frontier Airlines, Inc.

Thom G. Field, Neale, Newman, Bradshaw & Freeman, Springfield, Mo., for Ozark Air Lines, Inc.

W. Glen Harlan, Eastern Air Lines, Inc., New York City, for Eastern Air Lines, Inc.

W. B. West, III, Clark, West, Keller, Sanders & Butler, Dallas, Tex., for Braniff Airways, Inc.

G. Edward Cotter, Sr. Vice Pres. and Gen. Counsel, Continental Air Lines, Inc., Los Angeles, Cal., and Joe M. Kilgore and James W. Wilson, McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, Austin, Tex., for Continental Air Lines, Inc.

S. G. Johndroe, Jr., City Atty., and Ogden K. Shannon, Fort Worth, Tex., for City of Fort Worth, Tex.

N. Alex Bickley, City Atty., Dallas, Tex., for City of Dallas, Tex.

Charles C. Wells and C. Merrill Bierfeld, Dallas-Ft. Worth Regional Airport Bd., Dallas-Fort Worth, Tex., for Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport Bd.


OPINION

WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff Southwest Airlines Co. (Southwest) applies to this court to enjoin defendants from undertaking to relitigate in a suit pending in a state district court of Travis County, Texas, certain rights and public duties previously litigated and determined by this court. The defendants are Texas International Airlines, Inc. (Texas International or T.I.); Delta Air Lines, Inc. (Delta); American Airlines, Inc. (American...

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