In appraising the sufficiency of the complaint we follow, of course, the accepted rule that a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.
To have a property interest in a benefit, a person clearly must have more than an *930 abstract need or desire for it. He must have more than a unilateral expectation of it. He must, instead, have a legitimate claim of entitlement to it. It is a purpose of the ancient institution of property to protect those claims upon which people rely in their daily lives, reliance that must not be arbitrarily undermined. It is a purpose of the constitutional right to a hearing to provide an opportunity for a person to vindicate those claims.
The powers and duties conferred on [a municipal utility] district are granted subject to the policy of the state to encourage the development and use of integrated area-wide waste collection, treatment, and disposal systems to serve the waste disposal needs of the citizens of the state, it being an objective of the policy to avoid the economic burden to the people and the impact on the quality of the water in the state which result from the construction and operation of numerous small waste collection, treatment, and disposal facilities to serve an area when an integrated area-wide waste collection, treatment, and disposal system for the area can be reasonably provided.
The board shall hear and consider the petition and may add to the district the land described in the petition if it is considered to be to the advantage of the *931 district and if the water, sewer, and drainage system and other improvements of the district are sufficient or will be sufficient to supply the added land without injuring land already in the district.
Beginning on or about the year 1973, the exact date being unknown to Plaintiff, Defendants have engaged in an unlawful combination, and conspiracy to monopolize the commercial and residential development of land in the Addicks Municipal District's physical area, including the Plaintiff's 20.04 acres of land which are completely surrounded by the lands of Addicks. They have attempted to monopolize and have monopolized such trade in violation of the anti-trust laws of the United States.
must prove more than injury causally linked to an illegal presence in the market. Plaintiffs must prove antitrust injury, which is to say injury of the type the antitrust laws were intended to prevent and that flows from that which makes defendants' acts unlawful. The injury should reflect the anticompetitive effect either of the violation or of anticompetitive acts made possible by the violation.
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