IN RE AMERICAN HOME PRODUCTS CORP.

Nos. 97-0654, 97-0655.

985 S.W.2d 68 (1998)

In Re AMERICAN HOME PRODUCTS CORPORATION, Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Division of American Home Products Corporation, Wyeth Laboratories, Inc., and Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories Company, Relators (Two Cases).

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided December 31, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Duggins, Austin, George H. Spencer, Sr., Gail Dalrymple, Jane E. Bockus, San Antonio, Alejandro Acosta, Jr., El Paso, Andrew S. Hansen, Houston, J.A. (Tony) Canales, Corpus Christi, Michael R. Klatt, Leslie A. Benitez, Austin, for Relator.

Stephen E. Harrison, II, Waco, Frank Herrera, Jr., Rogelio Lopez, San Antonio, Aubrey R. Williams, Robert M. Campbell, Thomas B. Cowart, Waco, Donald M. Hunt, Lubbock, Charles R. Watson, Jr., Amarillo, David Casso, B. Buck Pettitt, McAllen, for Respondent.


Justice OWEN delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice GONZALEZ, Justice HECHT, Justice ENOCH, Justice ABBOTT and Justice HANKINSON joined.

In these consolidated original proceedings, Relators seek to disqualify two law firms that jointly represent plaintiffs in the underlying suits because one of those firms retained a legal assistant who had previously worked with counsel for the defendants in this litigation. We hold that disqualification...

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