IN RE ROBERTS

No. 05-0362.

255 S.W.3d 640 (2008)

In re Susan ROBERTS and John R. Roberts, Jr., Individually and as Next Friends of Their Minor Children Jamie Roberts, Joshua Roberts, and Haley Roberts, Relators.

Supreme Court of Texas.

June 6, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ken Slavin, Kemp Smith, LLP, El Paso, George L. Thompson III, Thompson & Kerby, P.C., Lubbock, TX, for Relator.

Thomas C. Riney, Kerri L. Stampes, Riney & Mayfield LLP, Charles E. Moss, Mayfield Crutcher & Sharpee, LLP, Kristi R. Weaber, Mayfield, Crutcher and Sharpee, Amarillo, TX, for Real Party in Interest.


PER CURIAM.

We recently held in In re McAllen Medical Center that the expert reports required by former article 4590i were "intended to preclude extensive discovery and prolonged litigation in frivolous cases," and that appeal was not an adequate remedy when a trial court's refusal to enforce the statute would frustrate that intent. ___ S.W.3d ___, ___, 2008 WL 2069837, at *4 (Tex.2008). In McAllen, the trial court had refused to rule on objections to...

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