Supreme Court of Texas

A district court may not extend a temporary restraining order by forty-two days without the restrained party's consent, under Texas Rules of Civil Procedure 680, and mandamus is available to remedy the order.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/30/2002
• Published 08/30/2002

Judges

• Justice JEFFERSON delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice HECHT, Justice ENOCH, Justice OWEN, and Justice RODRIGUEZ joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Cornyn, Attorney General, Howard G. Baldwin, First Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey S. Boyd, Karen Watson Kornell, Cynthia Woelk, George Thomas Bohl, Brian E. Berwick, Office of the Attorney General of Texas, Austin, for Relator.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard W. Lowerre,Lowerre & Kelly, R. Lambeth Townsend, Lloyd, Gosselink, Fowler, Blevins & Mathews, Kassandra G. McLaughlin, Martin C. Rochelle, Austin, Beth Ann Blackwood, Koledey, Thomas & Blackwood, Tom M. Thomas, Thomas, Sheehan & Culp, LLP, Dallas, for Respondent.