Supreme Court of Texas

In a personal-injury action resulting from exposure to toxic chemicals, in which a second plaintiff sought to intervene and defendant sought to strike the intervention, but the trial court instead severed second plaintiff's claim into a new suit, defendant's petition for mandamus relief is conditionally granted where: 1) the trial court was required to rule on defendant's motion to strike before considering a severance; 2) the trial court lacked discretion to order the severance; and 3) defendant lacked an adequate remedy by appeal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/14/2008
• Published 11/14/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Scott Richard Humphrey, Amy Pharr Hefley, for Union Carbide Corporation., Tynan Buthod, for Union Carbide Corporation./Merck & Co., Inc., Daryl L. Moore, Joann Storey, Lance H. Lubel, James Robert Black, Louis Jether Jones, II, Pamela Stanton Baron, for Mary Ellen Hall., James B. Galbraith, Heather Diane Bradford, for BP Products North America, Inc., Stephen C. Dillard, for Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, LP., David A. Oliver, Jr., Sharon Kay Jackson Wendell, for DAP Products, Inc., Robert Phillip Scott, for Delaware USS Corporation., Andrew C. Schirrmeister, III, for E.I. Du Pont of Nemours and Company, Inc., Janis Harlan Detloff, for 3M Company., Boyd Sommers Hoekel, for Mallinckrodt Baker, Inc., Roy Tress Atwood, Kathryn Becker Gameros, for Norcross Safety Products, LLC., Larry W. Thorpe, for Scott Aviation., Joshua Nathaniel Bowlin, for Shamrock Specialties, Inc., Charles Stanton Perry, for Shell Chemical LP., James M. Riley Jr., Stacy Kay Seidlitz, for Radiator Specialty Company.