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IN RE VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA, INC.

No. 00-0025.

22 S.W.3d 462 (2000)

In re VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA, INC., Relator.

Supreme Court of Texas.

May 11, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy R. Bersch, Kevin F. Risley, Gilpin Paxson & Bersch, Houston, Raul A. Gonzalez, Locke Liddell & Sapp, Austin, Eduardo R. Rodriguez, Joseph A. Rodriguez, Rodriguez, Colvin & Chaney, Brownsville, for relator.

Greg M. Powers, Harlingen, Victor M. Carrera, Roger Reed, Alberto Luis Guerrero, Reed Carrera & McLain, David Neal Calvillo, Rodriguez Pruneda Tovar Calvillo & Garcia, McAllen, for respondent.

Petition for writ of mandamus denied.

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

The trial in this case, like the trial in In re Bayerische Motoren Werke, AG,1 took three weeks. Juries in both cases found in favor of the defendant. The trial courts in both cases granted new trials "in the interest of justice" without explanation. For the same reasons I explained in

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