NUMBER 13-06-389-CV

                         COURT OF APPEALS

               THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                  CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG

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                          IN RE: EUGENE X. MERCIER  

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On Petition for Writ of Mandamus and Motion for Emergency Hearing

                      on Petition for Writ of Mandamus ___________________________________________________________________

                     MEMORANDUM OPINION

         Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Rodriguez and Garza

                            Per Curiam Memorandum Opinion^[1]

Relator, Eugene X. Mercier, filed a petition for writ of mandamus in the above cause on July 10, 2006.  The Court, having examined and fully considered the petition for writ of mandamus, its record and its "clerk's record," is of the opinion that relator has not shown himself entitled to the relief sought.  Accordingly, relator's petition for writ of mandamus is denied.  See Tex. R. App. P. 52.8(a).

Furthermore, relator's motion for emergency hearing on petition for writ of mandamus filed on July 10, 2006, is also denied.

PER CURIAM

Memorandum Opinion delivered and

filed this 11th day of July, 2006.