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IN RE BENT

NO. 14-1006.

487 S.W.3d 170 (2016)

IN RE Stacey BENT and Mark Bent, Relators.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Opinion Delivered: April 1, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ana Ene , Richard D. Daly , Daly & Black, P.C., Eric Michael Adams , Mehaffy & Weber PC, Ernest W. Boyd , Butch Boyd Law Firm, Jonathan Daniel Simon , Simon Law Firm, Marilyn Vilandos , The Vilandos Firm, P.C., Houston, Melissa Waden Wray , Daly & Black, P.C., Waco, for Relators.

Russell S. Post , Beck Redden LLP, Houston, for Amicus Curiae.

Christopher Avery , Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP, Christopher W. Martin , Levon G. Hovnatanian , Robert T. Owen , Martin Disiere Jefferson & Wisdom, L.L.P., Tanya Dugas , Raley & Bowick, LLP, Houston, for Real Party in Interest.

In recent years this Court has sought to protect the constitutional right to a trial by jury by requiring trial courts to provide litigants with "an understandable, reasonably specific explanation" for setting aside a jury verdict and ordering a new trial...

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