Legal Opinion
In Re Continental General Tire, Inc.
Texas Supreme Court
Decided November 12, 1998No. 98-0125PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPhillips, Chief Justice
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 stock,” a rubber compound used in tire manufacturing. The trial court ordered the manufacturer to produce the formula under a protective order, and the court of appeals denied the manufacturer’s…
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