Argonaut Insurance Company and Argonaut Great Central Insurance Company v. Glenn Hegar, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas And Ken Paxton, Attorney General of the State of Texas

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: January 15, 2015
• Docket: 03-13-00619-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

ACCEPTED 03-13-00619-CV 3788646 THIRD COURT OF APPEALS AUSTIN, TEXAS 1/15/2015 4:24:11 PM JEFFREY D. KYLE CLERK No. 03-13-00619-CV ____________________________________________________ FILED IN In the Court of Appeals for the Third Judicial District 3rd COURT OF APPEALS AUSTIN, TEXAS Austin, Texas 1/15/2015 4:24:11 PM ____________________________________________________ JEFFREY D. KYLE Clerk Argonaut Insurance Company and Argonaut Great Central Insurance Company, Appellants,

v.

Glenn Hegar, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas, and Ken Paxton, Attorney General of the State of Texas Appellees. ____________________________________________________

On Appeal from the 261st Judicial District Court, Travis County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. D-1-GN-11-001584 Hon. Lora J. Livingston, Presiding ____________________________________________________

APPELLEES’ NOTICE OF AUTOMATIC SUBSTITUTION OF PUBLIC OFFICERS ___________________________________________________

TO THE HONORABLE THIRD COURT OF APPEALS:

Pursuant to Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 7.2(a), Appellees give notice that

Glenn Hegar succeeded Susan Combs as Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of

Texas on January 2, 2015, and Ken Paxton succeeded Greg Abbott as Attorney General

of the State of Texas on January 5, 2015.

Accordingly, the Appellees now should be designated “Glenn Hegar, Comptroller

of Public Accounts of the State of Texas, and Ken Paxton, Attorney General of the State

of Texas.”

1 Respectfully submitted,

KEN PAXTON Attorney General

CHARLES E. ROY First Assistant Attorney General

JAMES E. DAVIS Deputy Attorney General for Civil Litigation

ROBERT O’KEEFE Division Chief, Financial Litigation, Tax, and Charitable Trusts Division

/s/ Shannon M. Ryman SHANNON M. RYMAN Lead Attorney State Bar No. 24089705 Financial Litigation, Tax, and Charitable Trusts Division P.O. Box 12548, MC 017-6 Austin, Texas 78711-2548 Telephone: (512) 475-4866 Telecopier: (512) 477-2348 shannon.ryman@texasattorneygeneral.gov Attorneys for Appellees

2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on this 15th day of January, 2015, a true and correct copy of the foregoing Appellees’ Notice of Automatic Substitution of Public Officers was served on the following attorney(s) of record, via File & Serve Express service and/or as otherwise indicated below:

Jonathan D. Pauerstein Via Email: jpauerstein@rpsalaw.com Rosenthal Pauerstein Sandoloski Agather LLP 755 East Mulberry Street, Suite 200 San Antonio, Texas 78212

/s/ Shannon M. Ryman Shannon M. Ryman