Flores v. Banner

The presiding judge of the First Administrative Judicial Region assigned Respondent, a former judge subject to the provisions of Section 74.053(d) of the Texas Government Code, to sit in the 101st District Court of Dallas County. Respondent overruled Diana Flores’s timely filed objection to Respondent as a visiting judge. Flores seeks mandamus relief ordering Respondent to vacate his orders in the underlying case and to disqualify himself from any further proceedings in the case. Because the Texas Government Code makes disqualification mandatory in this case, we conditionally grant the writ.

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