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IN RE CONTINENTAL GENERAL TIRE, INC.

No. 98-0125.

979 S.W.2d 609 (1998)

In re CONTINENTAL GENERAL TIRE, INC., Relator.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided November 12, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julie Caruthers Parsley, John Cornyn, Eugene W. Brees, II, Austin, Kenneth J. Moran, Richmond, VA, for Relator.

Ray Chester, Waylon L. Allen, Austin, for Respondent.

PHILLIPS, Chief Justice, delivered the opinion of the Court, in which GONZALEZ, HECHT, ENOCH, SPECTOR, OWEN, BAKER and ABBOTT, Justices, join.

Under our rules of evidence, a party has a privilege to refuse to disclose its trade secrets "if the allowance of the privilege will not tend to conceal fraud or otherwise work injustice." See TEX.R. EVID. 507. The issue is whether Rule 507 protects from discovery a tire manufacturer's chemical formula for its "skim...

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