Jaster-Quintanilla & Assocs., Inc. v. Prouty

Bob Pemberton, Justice *185This appeal challenges a district court order denying a motion to dismiss under Chapter 150 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code, the statute requiring that a sworn "certificate of merit" accompany a lawsuit "arising out of the provision of professional services" by engineers and certain other "licensed or registered professional[s]."1 Through intervening Texas Supreme Court guidance, what was originally a broader range of issues on appeal has distilled principally to whether the district court abused its discretion in determining that the certificate in question…