CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC. v. MILLER COUNTY CIRCUIT SECOND DIV.

No. 06-1294.

258 S.W.3d 336 (2007)

CENTERPOINT ENERGY, INC., Centerpoint Energy Resources Corp. (f/ k/a Reliant Energy Resources Corp.), Entex Gas Marketing Company, Centerpoint Energy Field Services, Inc., and Centerpoint Energy Pipeline Services, Inc., Petitioners, v. MILLER COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, SECOND DIVISION, the Honorable Jim Hudson, Circuit Judge, Presiding; Weldon Johnson; and Angela Sullivan Engledowl, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

June 7, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baker Botts, LLP, by: B. Daryl Bristow, Mark R. Robeck, Amy Douthitt Maddux, and Jason M. Ryan; Jackson Walker, LLP, by: Richard E. Griffin, Houston, TX; Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP, by: James M. Simpson, Robert S. Shafer, and Martin A. Kasten, Little Rock; and Atchley, Russell, Waldrop & Hlavinka, LLP, by: J. Dennis Chambers, Texarkana, TX, for petitioners.

Patton, Roberts, McWilliams & Capshaw, by: Phillip N. Cockrell, Richard A. Adams, and Shivali Sharma; Keil & Goodson, by: John C. Goodson and Matt Keil; Nix, Patterson & Roach, LLP, by: C. Cary Patterson and Michael B. Angelovich, Texarkana, TX; James M. Pratt, Jr., P.A., by: James M. Pratt, Jr., Camden; and Eggleston & Briscoe, by: Wade Vandiver and Bill Eggleston, Houston, TX, for respondents.

Mary W. Cochran, General Counsel, and Randolph Hightower, Commission Counsel, Arkansas Public Service Commission, Little Rock, for Arkansas Public Service Commission as amicus curiae.

Greg Abbott, Attorney General of Texas, Kent C. Sullivan, First Ass't Attorney General, Edward D. Burbach, Dep. Attorney General for Litigation, Karen Kornell, Ass't Attorney General, Chief, Natural Resources Division, Daniel C. Wiseman, Ass't Attorney General, Natural Resources Division, Austin, TX, for Public Utility Commission of Texas, as amicus curiae.

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, PLLC, by: Derrick W. Smith, Little Rock; Eve Kahao Gonzalez, General Counsel, Louisiana Public Service Commission, Baton Rouge, LA, for Louisiana Public Service Commission as amicus curiae.


ROBERT L. BROWN, Justice.

Petitioners Centerpoint Energy, Inc. (hereinafter "Centerpoint"); Centerpoint Energy Resources Corp. (f/k/a Reliant EnergyResources Corp.) (hereinafter "CERC"); Entex Gas Marketing Company (hereinafter "EGMC"); Centerpoint Energy Field Services, Inc.; and Centerpoint Energy Pipeline Services, Inc. (hereinafter referred to collectively as "Centerpoint petitioners"), have petitioned this court for a writ of prohibition to prohibit the Miller...

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