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Mandamus Granted Over Denial of Special Exception

By Mike Northrup on October 12, 2011
Posted in Opinions & Judgments

Here’s one to put in your mandamus file.  The Dallas Court of Appeals has held that the trial court abused its discretion by denying a special exception and that the relators had no adequate remedy by appeal.  Of course, there’s more to this holding than meets the eye.

This is a sharolder derivative suit governed…

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Mike Northrup is the chair of the appellate practice group at Cowles & Thompson, P.C. He is Board Certified in Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and is a former Chair of the Appellate Law Section…

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