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IN RE UNION CARBIDE CORP.

Nos. 14-04-00538-CV, 14-04-00539-CV.

145 S.W.3d 805 (2004)

In re UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION, Certain Teed Corporation, The Dow Chemical Company, General Electric Company, and Kelly-Moore Paint Company, Relators. In re ExxonMobil Corporation, Relator.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

September 23, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reagan W. Simpson, Stephen G. Tipps, Arthur R. Almquist, Amy Douhitt Maddux and David Clayton Searle, Cynthia Gay Odom Crawford, F. Walters Conrad, Jr., J. Eric Toher, Houston, Paula Heirtzler Blazek, Beaumont, Sarah E. Iiams and Lawrence Emerson Abbott, New Orleans, LA, Todd N. Wade and Kay Andrews, Austin, Gary D. Elliston, Dallas, for Relator.

Leanne Jackson, Michael J. Hanners, Russell W. Budd, Steven T. Baron, Brent Rosenthal, Kevin Duane Mchargue, Dallas, Lou Thompson Black, Robert Eugene Shuttlesworth, Rola S. Hart, Sandra Thourot Krider, Scott R. Link, Brady Sherrod, Houston, Aaryn Kemp Giblin, Bryan O. Blevins Jr., Colin D. Moore, John A. Cowan, Beaumont, for Respondent.

Panel consists of Justice EDELMAN, Senior Chief Justice MURPHY, and Senior Justice MIRABAL.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

This consolidated mandamus proceeding involves a pretrial docket control ruling by the Presiding Judge of the first Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) Court in Texas, to which all asbestos cases filed in Texas after September 1, 2003, have been transferred.1 As of May 7, 2004, more than 1,500 asbestos cases had been transferred to the MDL Court.

Relators in this mandamus proceeding are defendants in the...

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