Crescent Towing & Salvage Co. v. Ormet Corp.

| iLEMMON, Justice. *

Several tug boat companies filed this action seeking to enjoin the enforcement of a contract between a competitor towing company and the lessee of a public marine cargo terminal under which the lessee has exclusively employed the competitor to provide harbor tug service to ships that loaded and unloaded cargo at that terminal. In their petition, plaintiffs asserted, among other things, that the operations under the contract violate the Interstate Commerce Clause. After the lower courts denied plaintiffs any preliminary or permanent injunctive relief, this court granted…