Aguirre v. Phillips Properties, Inc.

OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

Opinion by

Chief Justice VALDEZ.

Appellant Antonio Aguirre2 filed a motion for rehearing en banc, arguing that *331this Court made a dispositive error of fact concerning the proceedings in the trial court, in our disposition of issue one. Upon review of the record, we grant Aguirre’s motion for rehearing, withdraw our prior opinion, and substitute the following opinion.

Facts and Procedural History

This appeal arises from five separate lawsuits3 filed by numerous plaintiffs against a voluminous number of defendants, involving allegations of contamination resulting from…