In Re Tenet Hospitals Ltd.

DON WITTIG,

Senior Justice, dissenting, (Assigned).

Because I would hold that the relator, Tenet Hospitals, has an adequate remedy at law, I respectfully dissent. Mandamus will not issue where there is “a clear and adequate remedy at law, such as a normal appeal.” State v. Walker, 679 S.W.2d 484, 485 (Tex.1984).

Mandamus is an extraordinary remedy. Republican Party of Texas v. Dietz, 940 S.W.2d 86, 88 (Tex.1997); Walker v. Packer, 827 S.W.2d 833, 839-44 (Tex.1992). We do not have jurisdiction to issue writs of mandamus to supervise or correct incidental rulings of a trial judge where there is an…