In Re Johnson

OPINION

JAMES T. CAMPBELL, Justice.

Relator R. Wayne Johnson has filed a petition requesting issuance of a writ of mandamus directing the Honorable Charles Chapman, Judge of the 39th District Court of Haskell County, to rule on a motion for discovery sanctions in a pending civil suit filed by relator in that court. We dismiss the petition for want of jurisdiction.

Relator cites Government Code section 22.221(b) as the source of our authority to issue the writ requested. 1 That statute provides courts of appeals may issue writs of mandamus, “agreeable to the principles of law regulating those…