COURT OF APPEALS

                                       SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                                   FORT WORTH

                                        NO. 2-09-344-CV

IN RE BUFORD SCOTT, JR.                                                      RELATOR

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                                    ORIGINAL PROCEEDING

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                                MEMORANDUM OPINION^[1]

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The court has considered relator=s petition for writ of mandamus and motion for emergency stay and is of the opinion that relief should be denied.  Accordingly, relator=s petition for writ of mandamus and motion for emergency stay are denied.

Relator shall pay all costs of this original proceeding, for which let execution issue.

BOB MCCOY

JUSTICE

PANEL:  MCCOY, LIVINGSTON, and MEIER, JJ.

MEIER, J. dissents without opinion.

DELIVERED:  November 25, 2009