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Court of Appeals of Texas, 2018

in Re Wood Group PSN Inc., Miller Environmental Services L.L.C., Star Tex Gasoline & Oil Distributors Inc., Basic Energy Services Inc., Cameron Inc., Chacho's Vacuum Service Inc., Coastal Chemical Co. L.L.C., Flint Energy Services Inc., FTS International Services L.L.C., Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co., Mission Petroleum Carriers Inc., Murphy Exploration & Production Company - USA, Murphy Oil Corporation, Plains All American Pipeline L.P.

in Re Wood Group PSN Inc., Miller Environmental Services L.L.C., Star Tex Gasoline & Oil Distributors Inc., Basic Energy Services Inc., Cameron Inc., Chacho's Vacuum Service Inc., Coastal Chemical Co. L.L.C., Flint Energy Services Inc., FTS International Services L.L.C., Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co., Mission Petroleum Carriers Inc., Murphy Exploration & Production Company - USA, Murphy Oil Corporation, Plains All American Pipeline L.P.
Court of Appeals of Texas · Decided December 12, 2018
in Re Wood Group PSN Inc., Miller Environmental Services L.L.C., Star Tex Gasoline & Oil Distributors Inc., Basic Energy Services Inc., Cameron Inc., Chacho's Vacuum Service Inc., Coastal Chemical Co. L.L.C., Flint Energy Services Inc., FTS International Services L.L.C., Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co., Mission Petroleum Carriers Inc., Murphy Exploration & Production Company - USA, Murphy Oil Corporation, Plains All American Pipeline L.P.

Opinion

Fourth Court of Appeals

San Antonio, Texas

OPINION

No. 04-18-00418-CV

IN RE WOOD GROUP PSN INC.,

Miller Environmental Services L.L.C., Star Tex Gasoline & Oil Distributors Inc., Basic Energy Services Inc., Cameron Inc., Chacho’s Vacuum Service Inc., Coastal Chemical Co. L.L.C., Flint Energy Services Inc., FTS International Services L.L.C., Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co., Mission Petroleum Carriers Inc., Murphy Exploration & Production Company - USA, Murphy Oil Corporation, Plains All American Pipeline L.P. Original Mandamus Proceeding 1 DISSENTING OPINION TO DENIAL OF EN BANC RECONSIDERATION Dissenting Opinion by: Rebeca C. Martinez, Justice

Sitting en banc: Sandee Bryan Marion, Chief Justice

Karen Angelini, Justice

Marialyn Barnard, Justice

Rebeca C. Martinez, Justice

Patricia O. Alvarez, Justice

Luz Elena D. Chapa, Justice 2

Irene Rios, Justice

Delivered and Filed: December 12, 2018

I dissent to the denial of en banc reconsideration without requesting a response. See TEX. R. APP. P. 49.2. Based on my review of the pleadings, I disagree that they entirely fail to assert the basis of a claim against these relators for purposes of surviving a 91a motion to dismiss. Again, “(i)t is not the court’s role, in reviewing the granting of a Rule 91a motion, to determine prematurely the merits Dissenting Opinion 04-18-00418-CV of an alleged cause of action, but rather to recognize the foundation of one.” Vasquez v. Legend Natural Gas III, LP, 492 S.W.3d 448, 462 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2016, pet. denied) (Martinez, J., dissenting); TEX. R. CIV. P. 91a.

I would therefore uphold the trial court’s decision to deny the defendants’ Rule 91a motion.

Rebeca C. Martinez, Justice

1 This proceeding arises out of Cause No. 13-05-11980-DCVAJA, styled County of Dimmit v. Murphy Exploration & Production Co., et al., pending in the 365th Judicial District Court, Dimmit County, Texas, the Honorable Amado J. Abascal, III presiding. 2 Not participating.

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