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Texas Prisoner Granted Conditional Mandamus Relief

Loaded on April 15, 2011

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Frivolous Litigation, Mandamus. Location: Texas.

In a 2-1 split decision filed on November 26, 2008, a Texas appellate court granted in part a prisoner’s petition for writ of mandamus filed after a district Judge refused to file a lawsuit filed by the prisoner, Gordon Simmonds.

Citing Chapter 14 of the Civil Procedures and Remedies Code, …

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