Cecile Erwin Young, in Her Official Capacity as the Executive Commissioner of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission; Molina Healthcare of Texas, Inc.; And Aetna Better Health of Texas, Inc. v. Cook Children's Health Plan, Texas Children's Health Plan, Superior Health Plan, Inc., and Wellpoint Insurance Company
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Opinion
ACCEPTED 15-24-00114-CV FIFTEENTH COURT OF APPEALS AUSTIN, TEXAS No. 15-24-00114-CV 2/25/2025 5:25 PM CHRISTOPHER A. PRINE CLERK FILED IN In the Court of Appeals for the 15th AUSTIN, COURT OF APPEALS TEXAS Fifteenth District of Texas 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM CHRISTOPHER A. PRINE Clerk Cecile E. Young, in her official capacity as Executive Commissioner of Texas Health & Human Services Commission, Appellant, v. Cook Children’s Health Plan, Texas Children’s Health Plan, Superior HealthPlan, Inc., and Wellpoint Insurance Company,
Appellees. ______________________________________________
Appeal from the 455th Judicial District Court, Travis County, Texas, Trial Court Cause No. D-1-GN-24-003839, Hon. Laurie Eiserloh, Presiding ______________________________________________
Amended Unopposed Motion for Withdrawal of Attorney ______________________________________________
1. Appellee Superior HealthPlan, Inc. (“Superior”) requests that the
Court allow one of its attorneys, Meghan McCaig, to withdraw as counsel of record
for Superior in this case.
2. Ms. McCaig is leaving Holland & Knight LLP. Karen D. Walker,
Tiffany Roddenberry, and Richard B. Phillips, Jr. of Holland & Knight LLP will
continue to be counsel of record on behalf of Superior.
1 3. Counsel for the appellants and for the other appellees have stated that
they not oppose the relief requested.
4. Accordingly, Superior respectfully requests that the Court enter an
order allowing Meghan McCaig to withdraw as counsel of record for Superior in this
case.
2 Respectfully submitted,
Holland & Knight LLP
By: /s/ Richard B. Phillips, Jr. Richard B. Phillips, Jr. Texas Bar No. 24032833 rich.phillips@hklaw.com
One Arts Plaza 1722 Routh Street, Suite 15500 Dallas, Texas 75201 (214) 964-9500 (telephone) (214) 964-9501 (facsimile)
Karen D. Walker Pro Hac Vice Forthcoming Florida Bar No. 982921 D.C. Bar No. 90004390 karen.walker@hklaw.com Tiffany Roddenberry Pro Hac Vice Forthcoming Florida Bar No. 92524 tiffany.roddenberry@hklaw.com
315 S. Calhoun Street, Suite 600 Tallahassee, Florida 32301 (850) 425-5612 (telephone) (850) 224-8832 (facsimile)
ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE SUPERIOR HEALTHPLAN, INC.
3 CERTIFICATE OF CONFERENCE
I certify that counsel for Superior conferred by email with counsel for all other parties regarding this motion. They all indicated that their clients are not opposed to the withdrawal of Ms. McCaig as counsel for Superior.
By: Richard B. Phillips, Jr. Richard B. Phillips, Jr.
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I certify that a true and correct copy of this document was served on all counsel of record in this case by efiletexas.gov on February 25, 2025.
4 Automated Certificate of eService This automated certificate of service was created by the efiling system. The filer served this document via email generated by the efiling system on the date and to the persons listed below. The rules governing certificates of service have not changed. Filers must still provide a certificate of service that complies with all applicable rules.
Richard Phillips on behalf of Richard Phillips Jr. Bar No. 24032833 Rich.Phillips@hklaw.com Envelope ID: 97789808 Filing Code Description: Motion Filing Description: Amended Unopposed Motion for Withdrawal of Meghan McCaig as Counsel for Superior HealthPlan, Inc. Status as of 2/26/2025 7:06 AM CST
Associated Case Party: Texas Health and Human Services
Name BarNumber Email TimestampSubmitted Status
Victoria Gomez victoria.gomez@oag.texas.gov 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Jennifer Cook Jennifer.Cook@oag.texas.gov 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Troy Sager troy.sager@oag.texas.gov 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Associated Case Party: Cook Children's Health Plan
Perkins Docketing Team DocketSEA@perkinscoie.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Karen Burgess 796276 kburgess@burgesslawpc.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Amy Warr 795708 awarr@adjtlaw.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Juliana Bennington jbennington@perkinscoie.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Reina A.Almon-Griffin ralmon-Griffin@perkinscoie.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Trisha Marino tmarino@perkinscoie.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Katie Dolan-Galaviz kgalaviz@burgesslawpc.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Matthew Gordon mgordon@perkinscoie.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Jonathan Hawley jhawley@perkinscoie.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM ERROR
Associated Case Party: Texas Children's Health Plan
Warren Huang 796788 warren.huang@nortonrosefulbright.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Paul Trahan 24003075 paul.trahan@nortonrosefulbright.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Susan Harris 6876980 susan.harris@nortonrosefulbright.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT Automated Certificate of eService This automated certificate of service was created by the efiling system. The filer served this document via email generated by the efiling system on the date and to the persons listed below. The rules governing certificates of service have not changed. Filers must still provide a certificate of service that complies with all applicable rules.
Richard Phillips on behalf of Richard Phillips Jr. Bar No. 24032833 Rich.Phillips@hklaw.com Envelope ID: 97789808 Filing Code Description: Motion Filing Description: Amended Unopposed Motion for Withdrawal of Meghan McCaig as Counsel for Superior HealthPlan, Inc. Status as of 2/26/2025 7:06 AM CST
Susan Harris 6876980 susan.harris@nortonrosefulbright.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Thomas Coulter 4885500 tom.coulter@nortonrosefulbright.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Associated Case Party: Superior Healthplan Inc.
Richard Phillips 24032833 Rich.Phillips@hklaw.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
J McCaig 24070083 meghan.mccaig@hklaw.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Karen Walker karen.walker@hklaw.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Tiffany Roddenberry tiffany.roddenberry@hklaw.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Associated Case Party: Wellpoint Insurance Company
Robert Johnson 10786400 rjohnson@foley.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Michelle Ku 24071452 mku@foley.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Kristin Hernandez kristin.hernandez@foley.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Benjamin Grossman bjgrossman@foley.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Stacey Obenhaus sobenhaus@foley.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Associated Case Party: Molina Healthcare of Texas, Inc.
Cheryl LaFond 24104015 clafond@scottdoug.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT Automated Certificate of eService This automated certificate of service was created by the efiling system. The filer served this document via email generated by the efiling system on the date and to the persons listed below. The rules governing certificates of service have not changed. Filers must still provide a certificate of service that complies with all applicable rules.
Richard Phillips on behalf of Richard Phillips Jr. Bar No. 24032833 Rich.Phillips@hklaw.com Envelope ID: 97789808 Filing Code Description: Motion Filing Description: Amended Unopposed Motion for Withdrawal of Meghan McCaig as Counsel for Superior HealthPlan, Inc. Status as of 2/26/2025 7:06 AM CST
Cheryl LaFond 24104015 clafond@scottdoug.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Jason R.LaFond jlafond@scottdoug.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Associated Case Party: Aetna Better Health of Texas, Inc.
Joseph Knight 11601275 jknight@ebbklaw.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Case Contacts
Michaelle Peters mpeters@scottdoug.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Julie Wright julie.wright@nortonrosefulbright.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
Amanda DoddsPrice amanda.price@squirepb.com 2/25/2025 5:25:16 PM SENT
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