IN RE RIO GRANDE VALLEY GAS CO.

Nos. 99-1067, 99-1068.

8 S.W.3d 303 (1999)

In re RIO GRANDE VALLEY GAS CO. and Southern Union Gas Co., Relators. In re PG & E Reata Energy, L.P. et al., Relators.

Supreme Court of Texas.

November 12, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Lee Parsley, Austin, Cynthia Keely Timms, Dallas, J.A. (Tony) Canales, Corpus Christi, Daniel W. Bishop, II, Austin, David C. Garza, Brownsville, Christina Carlson Dodds, Austin, Jerry K. Clements, Dallas, for Relator in cause no. 99-1067.

Juan A. Magallanes, Brownsville, Luther H. Soules, III, San Antonio, Sheryl A. Scott, Houston, Gilberto Hinojosa, Brownsville, Juan R. Molina, Weslaco, Ramon Garcia, Edinburg, Jennifer Bruch Hogan, Benjamin L. Hall, III, Elizabeth B. Hawkins, Houston, Paul D. Andrews, Sara S. Murray, B. Mills Latham, San Antonio, Eduardo R. Rodriguez, Brownsville, for Respondent in cause no. 99-1067.

B. Mills Latham, San Antonio, Eduardo R. Rodriguez, Juan A. Magallanes, Brownsville, Luther H. Soules, III, Paul D. Andrews, Sara S. Murray, San Antonio, Gilberto Hinojosa, Brownsville, for Relato in cause no. 99-1068.

Benjamin L. Hall, III, Houston, Juan R. Molina, Weslaco, Elizabeth B. Hawkins, Sheryl A. Scott, Houston, for Respondent in cause no. 99-1068.


Justice HECHT, joined by Justice OWEN, dissenting from the denial of the petitions for writ of mandamus.

These two petitions for mandamus raise an important question about the scope of local court rules—rules adopted by a majority of the district or county judges in a county,1 and sometimes by individual judges.2 The question is this: can local court rules authorize the transfer of a case from one court...

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