in Re: Guidant Corporation & Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. ( 2005 )

                            NUMBER 13-05-767-CV

                     COURT OF APPEALS

            THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

               CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG

IN RE GUIDANT CORPORATION & CARDIAC PACEMAKERS, INC.

                     On Petition for Writ of Mandamus

                  MEMORANDUM OPINION

       Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Rodriguez and Garza

                           Per Curiam Memorandum Opinion[1]

          Relators, Guidant Corporation & Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., filed a petition for writ of mandamus in the above cause on December 21, 2005.  The Court, having

examined and fully considered the petition for writ of mandamus and its record, is of the opinion that relators have not shown themselves entitled to the relief sought.  Accordingly, relators' petition for writ of mandamus is denied.  See Tex. R. App. P. 52.8(a).

                                                                                                PER CURIAM

Memorandum Opinion delivered and filed

this 27th day of December, 2005.

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^[1] See Tex. R. App. P. 52.8(d) (“When denying relief, the court may hand down an opinion but is not required to do so.”); Tex. R. App. P. 47.4 (distinguishing opinions and memorandum opinions).