IN RE CHRISTIANSON AIR CONDITIONING

No. 20-0384.

639 S.W.3d 671 (2022)

IN RE CHRISTIANSON AIR CONDITIONING & PLUMBING, LLC and Continental Homes of Texas, LP, Relators

Supreme Court of Texas.

OPINION DELIVERED: February 4, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chandra Horne Bonine , Carl R. Dawson , Houston, for Relator Continental Homes of Texas, LP.

Gregory Norman Ziegler , Dallas, Rebecca M. Alcantar , Alex Bell, for Real Party in Interest.

Missy K. Atwood , Benjamin Zinnecker , Austin, John Felton , Benjamin Walton, for Other interested party.

Shelly Masters , Austin, Katherine `Katy' Patricia M. Andre , Dana Livingston, David A. Wright , Austin, Nicolas Aitches-Gavrizi , James B. Ewbank II , Austin, for Relator Christianson Air Conditioning and Plumbing, LLC.

Justice Busby delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice Hecht, Justice Lehrmann, Justice Devine, Justice Blacklock, Justice Bland, Justice Huddle, and Justice Young joined, and in which Justice Boyd joined except as to Part II.B.


This petition for writ of mandamus concerns the scope of available discovery regarding personal jurisdiction under Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 120a. After the parties failed to agree on the scope of two corporate representative depositions, the trial court granted a motion to compel the depositions on a list of thirty topics proposed by the plaintiffs. The court of appeals granted mandamus relief for the nonresident defendant, concluding that the trial court abused its...

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