in Re Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc ( 2019 )

Opinion issued September 24, 2019
In The
Court of Appeals
For The
First District of Texas
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NO. 01-19-00676-CV
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IN RE NABORS DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES USA, INC, Relator
Original Proceeding on Petition for Writ of Mandamus
MEMORANDUM OPINION
On September 10, 2019, Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc., filed a
petition for writ of mandamus requesting that our court compel the respondent
district court judge to rule on Nabors’s Motion to Dismiss and Compel Arbitration
in the underlying case.1 Nabors fails to demonstrate that the motion has been pending
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The underlying case is Joshua Robertson v. ConocoPhillips; ConocoPhillips
Company; Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc.; Charger Services, LLC; Big D
Equipment Company, Ltd.; M & M Excavating, Inc.; and Maurice Meyer III, John
R. Norris III, and David E. Berry, as Trustees of the Texas Pacific Land Trust, cause
for an unreasonable time since its June 3, 2019 submission date and Nabors’s
subsequent August 13, 2019 letter request for a ruling. See In re Foster, 503 S.W.3d
606, 607 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2016, orig. proceeding) (citing Barnes
v. State, 832 S.W.2d 424, 426 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 1992) (orig.
proceeding)). Accordingly, we deny the petition.
PER CURIAM
Panel consists of Justices Lloyd, Goodman, and Landau.
number 2018-24644, pending in the 165th District Court of Harris County, Texas,
the Honorable Ursula A. Hall presiding.
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