Legal Opinion
In Re Bradle
Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
Decided August 16, 2002No. 03-02-00376-CVPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MACK KIDD, Justice.
Relator, Michael R. Bradle, Individually and as Trustee of the Mildred Roemer Trust, seeks mandamus relief from an order by the district court effectively requiring the punitive damages portion of a lawsuit to be tried to an entirely different jury than the one that determined the liability and actual damage issues in the case. We hold that the district court abused its discretion in so ordering, and we will conditionally grant the writ.
PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Bradle timely filed a pretrial motion to bifurcate the punitive damages portion of the case below. 1 In the liability…
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