In re VAN WATERS & ROGERS, INC., et al., Relators.
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November 8, 2001.
November 8, 2001.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Joseph A. Garnett, Sheehy Serpe & Ware, Lansford O. Ireson, Gina Lucero Miller, Ireson & Weizel, James L. Moore, Baker & Hostetler, Bradley A. Jackson, Ben L. Reynolds, Royston Rayzor Vickery & Williams, Houston, Chester J. Makowski, Royston Rayzor Vickery & Williams, Robert G. Newman, San Antonio, Andrew Schirrmeister, III, Schirrmeister Ajamie, Houston, Norton A. Colvin, Jr., Rodriguez Colvin & Chaney, Brownsville, G. Don Schauer, Schauer & Simank, Corpus Christi, Karen Patterson Freeman, James Samuel Cowan, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Houston, David G. Oliveira, Roerig Oliveira & Fischer, Brownsville, Cindy A. Lopez Garcia, Garcia Law Firm, Harlingen, Robert E. Morse, III, Kelly Dick Brown, Crain Caton & James, Robert Scott, Valerie Ruth Vance, Abrams Scott & Brickley, Houston, Vic Fields, Vic Fields & Associates, Austin, for relators.
Robert G. Newman, W. Wendell Hall, Lisa Ann Shub, Fulbright & Jaworski, San Antonio, Marcy H. Greer, Fulbright & Jaworski, Austin, for Waters & Rogers, Inc.
Keith C. Livesay, Law Offices of Keith C. Livesay, Francisco J. Rodriguez, Hector E. Garcia, Ezequiel Tovar, Rodriguez Pruneda Tovar Calvillo & Garcia, McAllen, E. James Rausch, Rausch Law Office, Grandury, Karen K. Maston, Baker & Botts, Houston, James B. Galbraith, McLeod Alexander Powel & Apffel, Galveston, Arthur R. Almquist, Mehaffy & Weber, Houston, William A. Abernethy, M.W. Meredith, Jr., Meredith Donnell & Abernethy, Corpus Christi, Kay Andrews, Brown McCarroll & Oaks Hartline, Austin, Robert Valadez, Shelton & Valadez, San Antonio, Eduardo R. Rodriguez, Rodriguez, Colvin & Chaney, Brownsville, Michael Morgan Gibson, Bayko Gibson Carnegie Hagan Schoonmaker & Meyer, Houston, Jeffrey D. Roerig, Roerig Oliveira & Fisher, Brownsville, Andrew S. Hanen, Lawrence J. West, Hanen Alexander Johnson & Spalding, G. Joe Ellis, Woodard Hall & Primm, Houston, Raymond Alan Cowley, Rodriguez Colvin & Chaney, McAllen, Adrian Rafael Martinez, Meredith Donnell & Abernethy, Corpus Christi, Joyce B. Margrace, Baker & Hostetler, Houston, for respondent.
Supreme Court of Texas.
PER CURIAM.
The fifteen relators in this original mandamus proceeding are defendants in a seven-year-old mass-tort suit involving 448 plaintiffs.1 Relators seek relief from the trial court's orders abating almost all discovery and allowing the plaintiffs' counsel to pick which plaintiffs' claims will be tried first. Many of the relators and other defendants who have since settled sought the same relief more than three years ago in mandamus...
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