Supreme Court of Texas
Tesco Am., Inc. v. Strong Indus., Inc., 04-0269
A judgment denying a motion for rehearing and for disqualification in an appeal is reversed where the opinion at issue was authored by a justice who was constitutionally disqualified because, unbeknownst to her, before she took the bench, another attorney at her large firm played a role in the early stages of the appeal at hand.
Appellate Information
- Argued 02/17/2005
- Decided 03/17/2006
- Published 03/17/2006
Judges
- Justice BRISTER delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice O'NEILL, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice MEDINA, Justice GREEN, Justice JOHNSON, and Justice WILLETT joined.
Court
- Supreme Court of Texas
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Thomas C. Wright, Chad Michael Forbes, Wright Brown & Close, LLP, Houston, William V. Dorsaneo III, SMU School of Law, Dallas, Thomas G. Gruenert, Gibson-Gruenert, LLP, Houston, George Fred Rhodes, Port Lavaca, for petitioner., Carlton D. Wilde Jr., Jeffrey Donald Meyer and Sheila Murphy Wollam, Franklin Cardwell & Jones, P.C., Houston, for F.S. New Products, Inc., Luther H. Soules, III, Langley & Banack, Inc., San Antonio, for amicus curiae.
- For Appellees:
- Robert B. Dubose, Sean Reed Cox, Robert M. Roach Jr., Cook & Roach, L.L.P., Houston, S. Scott West, A. Reagan Clark, The West Law Firm, Sugar Land, Stephen G. Tipps, Baker & Botts, L.L.P., Houston, for respondents.