in Re Southwestern Public Service Company, Xcel Energy Inc., Xcel Energy Services, Inc.

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: August 25, 2022
• Docket: 13-22-00389-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

NUMBER 13-22-00389-CV

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG

IN RE SOUTHWESTERN PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY, XCEL ENERGY, INC., AND XCEL ENERGY SERVICES

On Petition for Writ of Mandamus.

ORDER Before Justices Benavides, Hinojosa, and Silva Order Per Curiam

On August 23, 2022, relators Southwestern Public Service Company, Xcel Energy

Inc., and Xcel Energy Services, Inc. filed a petition for writ of mandamus seeking to

compel the trial court to vacate an order granting death penalty sanctions against them.

Relators also filed: (1) an unopposed motion to exceed the word-count limit for the petition

for writ of mandamus; and (2) an unopposed motion requesting that we take judicial notice

of a mandamus record previously filed in our cause number 13-19-00111-CV. The Court requests that the real parties in interest, Eduardo Munoz Jr. and

Kasandra Girela Munoz, individually and as next friend of J.S., a minor, or any others

whose interest would be directly affected by the relief sought, file a response to the

petition for writ of mandamus on or before the expiration of ten (10) days from the date of

this order. See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.2, 52.4, 52.8. Further, the Court, having examined and

fully considered the relators’ motions, is of the opinion that they should be granted.

Accordingly, we grant the relators’ unopposed motion to exceed the word-count limit and

relators’ unopposed motion for judicial notice of the mandamus record in cause number

13-19-00111-CV.

PER CURIAM

Delivered and filed on the 25th day of August, 2022.