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HOUSTON CHRONICLE PUB. CO. v. HARDY

Nos. 13-83-544-CV, 13-84-015-CV and 13-84-016-CV.

678 S.W.2d 495 (1984)

HOUSTON CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY & Cox Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a Austin American-Statesman, Relators, v. The Honorable G.P. HARDY, Jr., District Judge, 130th District Court, Matagorda County, Texas, Serving by Special Appointment, Respondent. CITY OF AUSTIN, Relator, v. The Honorable G.P. HARDY, Jr., District Judge, 130th District Court, Matagorda County, Texas, Serving by Special Appointment, Respondent. CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Acting By and Through the CITY PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD OF the CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Relator, v. The Honorable G.P. HARDY, Jr., District Judge, 130th Judicial Court, Matagorda County, Texas, Serving by Special Appointment, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Denied May 10, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Robert Brown, Richard L. Tate, Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Brown & LaBoon, Houston, for relator (Houston Chronicle).

David H. Donaldson, Jr., Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, Austin, for relator (Cox Enter.).

G.P. Hardy, Jr., Wanda Roberts, Bay City, for respondent.

Thomas J. Heiden, Richard A. Gaffin, Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, Grand Rapids, Mich., William Vernon, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, Tex., Jonathan Davis, Acting City Atty., City of Austin, Austin, Tex., for relator, City of Austin.

Ferd C. Meyer, Jr., Raul M. Calderon, Jon C. Wood, Charles J. Fitzpatrick, Matthews & Brandscomb, San Antonio, Tex., for relator, City of San Antonio; B. Allen Cumbie, Charles Martinez, III, Bay City, Tex., of counsel.

W. James Kronzer, Houston, for real party in interest, The Halliburton Company.

Harry M. Reasoner, Page I. Austin, and Charles W. Schwartz, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, for real party in interest, Brown & Root, Inc.

Before NYE, C.J., and UTTER and KEITH, JJ.

OPINION

KEITH, Justice (Retired).

Our original jurisdiction has been invoked in three separate proceedings wherein each relator seeks the writ of mandamus to compel the Honorable G.P. Hardy, Jr., the District Judge of the 130th District Court of Matagorda County, serving by special appointment, to permit public dissemination of pretrial discovery material in depositions taken by the parties in a suit now pending, untried, in said court.

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