MANDAMUS
Applied in 42 court decisions — leading case In Re Prudential Insurance Co. of America (2004)
Most recently applied in in Re the Good Shepherd Hospital, Inc. (March 2019)
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 138, Sec. 5, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A party may apply for a writ of mandamus with an appellate court to enforce the mandatory venue provisions of this chapter. An application for the writ of mandamus must be filed before the later of:
(1) the 90th day before the date the trial starts; or
(2) the 10th day after the date the party receives notice of the trial setting.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.