Supreme Court of Texas

Under the law of the case doctrine, the court of appeals had authority to reconsider its first dismissal of an appeal, and to change that first decision if clearly erroneous, but the court should not have dismissed a second appeal for want of jurisdiction, but rather should have considered the merits of the first appeal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/27/2003
• Published 03/27/2003

Judges

• Justice ENOCH delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice HECHT, Justice OWEN, Justice O'NEILL, Justice SCHNEIDER, and Justice SMITH joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Randy Lee,Law Office of Randy Lee, El Paso, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• John P. Mobbs, Doris A. Sipes, El Paso, for Respondents.