IN RE ALLIED CHEMICAL CORP.

No. 04-1023.

227 S.W.3d 652 (2007)

In re ALLIED CHEMICAL CORPORATION, et al., Relator.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided June 15, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Newman, and Rosemarie Kanusky, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., San Antonio, R. Bruce Hurley, David G. Oliveira, Roerig Oliveira & Fisher, Brownsville, J.A. (Tony) Canales, Canales & Simonson, P.C., Corpus, Christi, Richard L. Josephson, Michael B. Bennett, Baker Botts, L.L.P., Robert Scott, Susie Denise Rosenthal, and Delia A. Spencer, Abrams Scott & Bickley, L.L.P., Houston, Michael B. Hughes, David E. Cowen, McLeod Alexander Powel & Apffel, P.C., Galveston, Michelle E. Murphy, Ricardo G. Cedillo, Davis, Cedillo & Mendoza, Inc., Robert L. Soza, Julia W. Mann, Mark Anthony Fassold, Jackson Walker L.L.P., San Antonio, Robert B. Gilbreath, Hawkins, Parnell & Thackston, LLP, Dallas, David Neal Calvillo, Martin Drought & Torres, Inc., McAllen, Brandy M. Wingate, Attorney At Law, Mission, Marc Edward Rietvelt, Jenkens & Gilchrist, San Antonio, Walter J. Passmore, Passmore Law Firm, McAllen, Michael J. Mazzone, Ann Al-Bahish, Haynes and Boone, LLP, Edward M. Carstarphen, Ellis, Carstarphen, Dougherty & Goldenthal, PC, Peter Thompson, Thompson & Reilley, P.C., Reagan W. Simpson, King & Spalding LLP, Houston, TX, Robert M. Howard, Christine G. Rolph, Latham & Watkins LLP, San Diego, CA, Troy Ford and David J. Beck, Beck Redden & Secrest, L.L.P., Houston, O.C. Hamilton Jr., Atlas & Hall, LLP, McAllen, Norton A. Colvin Jr., Rodriguez Colvin, Chaney & Saenz, L.L.P., Brownsville, Jack W. Dillard, Bryan, Sandra Thourot Krider, Edwards Burns & Krider LLP, Houston, Michael R. Klatt, Clark Thomas & Winters, Austin, Edmundo O. Ramirez, Ellis Koeneke & Ramirez, L.L.P., McAllen, Richard W. Espey, Derick James Rodgers, Davis Cedillo & Mendoza, Inc., San Antonio, David Blackshear Mantor, Ellis Carstarphen Dougherty & Goldenthal, P.C., Houston, Jose E. Garcia, Garcia & Villarreal, LLP, McAllen, Brady Sherrod Edwards, Edwards Burns & Krider LLP, Houston, for Relator.

Ramon Garcia, Law Offices of Ramon Garcia, P.C., Edinburg, Dennis C. Reich, Reich & Binstock, L.L.P., Houston, Ramon Rosales Jr., Law Office of Ramon Rosales, Jr., Mission, Robert Alan York, Godwin Pappas Ronquillo LLP, David W. Holman, Holman Law Firm, P.C., Linda L. Laurent, Thomas & Wan, L.L.P., Houston, and Mauro L. Reyna III, Penitas, Michelle Wymae Wan, Thomas & Wan, LLP, Houston, for Real Party In Interest.

Dwight E. Jefferson, Attorney At Law, P.L.L.C., Houston, George P. Powell, Hinojosa & Powell, P.C., McAllen, TX, for Intervenor.


Justice BRISTER delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Justice HECHT, Justice MEDINA, Justice GREEN, and Justice WILLETT joined.

Trial judges have broad discretion in scheduling discovery and trial, but that discretion has never been unlimited. As we stated in 1847, trial courts may set trials as they wish, but not so indiscriminately that the parties are "deprived of any just defense, or that their rights would in...

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