In a trademark infringement case that a federal judge describes in an order as "twenty-five years in the making," Daniel H. Byrne won a relatively rapid victory for his defense clients. In that July 10 order, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks of the Western District of Texas granted a motion for summary judgment filed by Byrne's clients. The same day, Sparks dismissed the case, Robert V. Buck, et al. v. Gamble J. Palmer Jr. et al., charging all court costs to the plaintiffs.
Byrne, a partner in Austin's Fritz, Byrne, Head & Harrison, who led the team representing all the defendants in Buck, says: "We were pleased that the case was dismissed at the summary judgment stage."
