COCA-COLA CO. v. HARMAR BOTTLING CO.

No. 03-0737.

218 S.W.3d 671 (2006)

The COCA-COLA COMPANY et al., Petitioners, v. HARMAR BOTTLING COMPANY et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided October 20, 2006.

Rehearing Denied May 4, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Harrison Pemberton, Austin, Orrin L. Harrison III, David Ray McAtee, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Tyler A. Baker, Jeffrey S. Levinger, Joshua A. Imhoff, Carrington Coleman Sloman & Blumenthal, LLP, Dallas, Kenneth L. Glazer, Bryan R. Henry, Albert C. Loebe, Atlanta, GA, Jonathan M. Jacobson, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, New York, NY, Kay Lynn Brumbaugh, Jerry L. Beane, Andrews Kurth LLP, and P. Michael Jung, Strasburger & Price, L.L.P., Dallas, for Petitioner.

Jeffrey J. Angelovich, Nix Patterson & Roach, Daingerfield, William A. Durham, Eastham, Watson, Dale & Forney, Warren W. Harris, Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP, Jacalyn Ann Hollabaugh, Karen Ann Lister, Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P., Houston, C. Cary Patterson, Nelson J. Roach, Nix Law Firm, Daingerfield, and Thomas M. Stanley, Law Office of Thomas M. Stanley, Houston, for Respondent.

R. Glen Rigby, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, Houston, David M. Gunn, David J. Beck, John Sidney Adcock, Beck, Redden & Secrest, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Kenneth W. Starr, Robert R. Gasaway, Elizabeth S. Petrela and Jennifer S. Atkins, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, DC, John J. Park, Jr., Office of Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for Amicus Curiae.


Justice HECHT delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice GREEN, Justice JOHNSON, and Justice WILLETT joined.

Five carbonated soft drink bottlers with franchises to distribute Royal Crown Cola in various territories within the Ark-La-Tex region (a four state region including parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas where the three borders meet, and also nearby southeast Oklahoma) sued The Coca-Cola Company and several distributers of both...

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