IN RE OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORP.

No. 18-0660.

561 S.W.3d 146 (2018)

IN RE OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Oxy Ingleside Energy Center, LLC, Oxy Ingleside LPG Terminal LLC, and Oxy Ingleside Oil Terminal LLC, Relators.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Opinion delivered: October 12, 2018.

Rehearing Denied December 14, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas E. Chaves , Chaves, Obregon & Perales, L.L.P., Laura Garza Jimenez , Nueces County Attorney, Corpus Christi, TX, for Real Party in Interest Nueces County, Texas.

D. Kirk Swinney , Peter William Low , Low & Swinney PLLC, Leander, TX, John J. Hightower , Allison S. Killian , Eric C. Farrar , Sands L. Stiefer , Olson & Olson, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Tamara L. Cochran-May , San Patricio County Attorney, Sinton, TX, for Real Party in Interest San Patricio County, Texas.

Dale Wainwright , Charles R. `Skip' Watson Jr. , Justin Bernstein , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Austin, TX, Edward Kliewer III , Rosemarie Kanusky , William T. Sullivan , Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, San Antonio, TX, for Relators.

Ken C. Cross , Texas Attorney General's Office, Kyle D. Hawkins , Office of the Attorney General, W. Kenneth Paxton Jr. , Attorney General of Texas Office of the Attorney General, Kristofer S. Monson , Assistant Solicitor General, Jeffrey C. Mateer , First Assistant Attorney General, Shelly M. Doggett , Assistant Attorney General, Austin, TX, Scott Keller , Baker Botts LLP, Washington, DC, for Respondent George P. Bush.

George P. Bush, Austin, TX, pro se.

Audrey Mullert Vicknair , Law Office of Audrey Mullert Vicknair, Tom C. Wheat , Law Offices of Tom C. Wheat, Corpus Christi, TX, for Respondent Ramiro Canales.

Ramiro Canales, Corpus Christi, TX, pro se.

D. Kirk Swinney , Peter William Low , Low & Swinney PLLC, Leander, TX, John J. Hightower , Allison S. Killian , Eric C. Farrar , Sands L. Stiefer , Olson & Olson, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Tamara L. Cochran-May , San Patricio County Attorney, Sinton, TX, for Respondents Robert P. Cenci and Dalia Sanchez.

Robert P. Cenci, Sinton, TX, pro se.

Dalia Sanchez, Sinton, TX, Pro se.

Douglas E. Chaves , Chaves, Obregon & Perales, L.L.P., Corpus Christi, TX, for Respondent Kevin Kieschnick.

Kevin Kieschnick, Corpus Christi, TX, pro se.

Kemper Stephen Williams, Victoria, TX, pro se.

Benjamin A. Geslison , Renn G. Neilson , Baker Botts L.L.P., Houston, TX, Thomas R. Phillips , Baker Botts L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae Corpus Christi Liquefaction, LLC.

George S. Christian , Texas Civil Justice League, Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae Texas Civil Justice League.


The Texas Constitution requires that all property be taxed "in the county where situated".1 But for 46 years, Nueces...

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