In Re Raymond E. Carr v. the State of Texas

• Court: Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
• Decided: July 9, 2026
• Docket: 01-26-00693-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

Opinion issued July 9, 2026

In The

Court of Appeals For The

First District of Texas ———————————— NO. 01-26-00693-CV ——————————— IN RE RAYMOND E. CARR, Relator

Original Proceeding on Petition for Writ of Mandamus

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Relator Raymond E. Carr has filed a petition for writ of mandamus

complaining of the justice court’s failure to set a pretrial conference.1

Because we have no jurisdiction to issue a writ of mandamus against a

justice court, and relator has not demonstrated any threat to our jurisdiction, we

dismiss relator’s petition for writ of mandamus for lack of jurisdiction. See TEX. 1 The underlying case is Raymond E. Carr v. Houston Food Bank and Joseph House, cause number 241200176401, pending in the Justice of the Peace Precinct 1 Place 2 of Harris County, Texas, the Honorable Steven M. Duble presiding. GOV’T CODE § 22.221(a)–(c); see also In re Castro, No. 02-23-00489-CV, 2024

WL 23627, at *1 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth Jan. 2, 2024, orig. proceeding) (mem.

op.) (dismissing petition for writ of mandamus for want of jurisdiction where

relator challenged “actions of a justice of the peace”); In re Garcia, No. 13-18-

00651-CV, 2018 WL 6219254, at *2 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi–Edinburg Nov.

28, 2018, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.) (“This Court does not have jurisdiction to

issue a writ of mandamus against a justice of the peace.”). We dismiss any

pending motions as moot.

PER CURIAM Panel consists of Chief Justice Adams and Justices Rivas-Molloy and Guiney.