In Re Yates

Relators, five Justices of the nine-member Fourteenth Court of Appeals, petition for mandamus to direct that court’s chief justice to “submit for an en banc vote all requests from a Justice seeking en banc consideration of a case” and to “permit a concurrence of a majority of the Justices sitting en banc to establish rules for, and implement, the en banc transaction or delegation of all business of the Court other than the hearing of cases.” We deny the relief requested.

“Mandamus issues only to correct a clear abuse of discretion or the violation of a duty imposed by law when there is no…