Starnes v. Chapman

OPINION

BAKER, Justice.

Michael G. Starnes et al. seek a writ of mandamus to compel respondent, the Honorable Ron Chapman, Presiding Judge of the First Administrative Judicial Region, to set aside his orders overruling Starnes’s objections to the assignment of the Honorable Tom Ryan in causes numbers 86-7704-I, 89-6582-1, and 89-10016-1 and to assign a qualified judge other than Judge Tom Ryan to hear any proceedings in those causes. Starnes also seeks a writ of mandamus directing Judge Ryan to vacate any order he has signed in said causes subsequent to May 13, 1988, and directing Judge Ryan to…