Rio Grande Royalty Co. v. Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

KEITH P. ELLISON, District Judge.

Pending before the Court are Plaintiffs Motion For Leave to Amend To Assert a Claim for Common Law Fraud (Doc. No. 31) and Defendants’ Cross-Motion To Dismiss the Proposed Class Action Complaint (Doc. No. 33). For the following reasons, Defendants’ Motion must be granted and Plaintiffs Motion must be denied.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case involves Sherman Act claims for unlawful monopolization and attempted monopolization in the market for fixed-price natural gas baseload transactions at the Houston Shipping Channel (“HSC”). Plaintiff Rio Grande…