Legal Opinion
In Re Levi Strauss & Co.
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
Decided February 18, 1998No. 08-97-00402-CVPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LARSEN, Justice.
This is an original proceeding in mandamus. Relator, Levi Strauss & Co., seeks an order from this court requiring the trial court to sever into separate causes of action and abate the claims of 110 plaintiffs eurrently pending in a single lawsuit. We grant relief as to severance, but deny relief as to abatement.
PROCEDURAL HISTORY
This mandamus involves claims of 110 plaintiffs, who all allege that Levi Strauss & Co., their employer, discriminated against them for filing worker’s compensation claims by subjecting them to ridicule, harassment, and degradation; forcing them…
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3Cited by6 opinions
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