DocketNumber: 04-18-00418-CV
Filed Date: 12/12/2018
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 12/13/2018
Fourth Court of Appeals San Antonio, Texas OPINION No. 04-18-00418-CV IN RE WOOD GROUP PSN INC., Miller Environmental Services L.L.C., Star Tex Gasoline & Oil Distributors Inc., Basic Energy Services Inc., Cameron Inc., Chacho’s Vacuum Service Inc., Coastal Chemical Co. L.L.C., Flint Energy Services Inc., FTS International Services L.L.C., Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co., Mission Petroleum Carriers Inc., Murphy Exploration & Production Company - USA, Murphy Oil Corporation, Plains All American Pipeline L.P. Original Mandamus Proceeding 1 DISSENTING OPINION TO DENIAL OF EN BANC RECONSIDERATION Dissenting Opinion by: Rebeca C. Martinez, Justice Sitting en banc: Sandee Bryan Marion, Chief Justice Karen Angelini, Justice Marialyn Barnard, Justice Rebeca C. Martinez, Justice Patricia O. Alvarez, Justice Luz Elena D. Chapa, Justice 2 Irene Rios, Justice Delivered and Filed: December 12, 2018 I dissent to the denial of en banc reconsideration without requesting a response. See TEX. R. APP. P. 49.2. Based on my review of the pleadings, I disagree that they entirely fail to assert the basis of a claim against these relators for purposes of surviving a 91a motion to dismiss. Again, “(i)t is not the court’s role, in reviewing the granting of a Rule 91a motion, to determine prematurely the merits 1 This proceeding arises out of Cause No. 13-05-11980-DCVAJA, styled County of Dimmit v. Murphy Exploration & Production Co., et al., pending in the 365th Judicial District Court, Dimmit County, Texas, the Honorable Amado J. Abascal, III presiding. 2 Not participating. Dissenting Opinion 04-18-00418-CV of an alleged cause of action, but rather to recognize the foundation of one.” Vasquez v. Legend Natural Gas III, LP,492 S.W.3d 448
, 462 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2016, pet. denied) (Martinez, J., dissenting); TEX. R. CIV. P. 91a. I would therefore uphold the trial court’s decision to deny the defendants’ Rule 91a motion. Rebeca C. Martinez, Justice -2-