Tesco American, Inc. v. Strong Industries, Inc.

of the Court,

in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice O’NEILL, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice MEDINA, Justice GREEN, Justice JOHNSON, and Justice WILLETT joined.

Since Texas became a state in 1845, judicial disqualification has always been a matter of constitutional dimension. Every Texas Constitution has provided that

No judge shall sit in any case wherein the judge may be interested, or where either of the parties may be connected *552with the judge, either by affinity or consanguinity, within such a degree as may be prescribed by law, or when the judge shall have been counsel in the case.1

The…