### No. 03

- 15

- 00436

- CV

In the Third Court of Appeals Austin , Texas

CHARLES O. “CHUCK” GRIGSON ; GERALD HOOKS AND LESLIE HOOKS , A

ppellan ts,

v.
THE STATE OF TEXAS ; THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE ; THE TEXAS COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE; and FARMERS GROUP, INC., FARMERS TEXAS COUNTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, TEXAS FARMERS INSURANCE COMPANY, FIRE INSURANCE EXCHANGE, ET AL. , Appellees

.
On Appeal from the 261st Judicial District Court

, Travis County, Texas Cause No. D -1- GV

- 02

- 002501

APPELLEES’ JOINT MOTION TO DISMISS GERALD AND LESLIE HOOKSES’ APPEAL FOR LACK OF APPELLATE JURISDICTI ON AND REQUEST FOR EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF MOTION

Marcy Hogan Greer State Bar No. 08417650 mgreer@adjtlaw.com A LEXANDER D UBOSE J EFFERSON & T OWNSEND LLP 515 Congress Ave., Suite 2350 Au stin, Texas 78701 Telephone: 512-482-9300 Telecopier: 512-482-9303

M. Scott Incerto State Bar No. 10388950 scott.incerto@nortonrosefulbright.com N ORTON R OSE F ULBRIGHT US LLP 98 San Jacinto Blvd., Suite 1100 Austin, Texas 78701 Telephone: 512-474-5201 Telecopier: 512-536-4598

C OUNSEL FOR D EFENDANTS -A PPELLEES T HE F ARMERS P ARTIES Joshua R. Godbey State Bar No. 24049996 joshua.godbey@texasattorneygeneral.gov Ryan S. Mindell State Bar No. 24089707 ryan.mindell@texasattorneygeneral.gov Jennifer S. Jackson State Bar No. 24060004 jennifer.jackson@texasattorneygeneral.gov O FFICE OF THE A TTORNEY G ENERAL P.O. Box 12548 Austin, Texas 78711-2548 Telephone: (512) 475-4209 Fax: (512) 477-2348)

C OUNSEL FOR P LAINTIFFS -A PPELLEES , T HE S TATE OF T EXAS , THE T EXAS D EPARTMENT

OF I NSURANCE , AND THE T EXAS C OMMISSIONER OF I NSURANCE ACCEPTED 03-15-00436-CV 6212457 THIRD COURT OF APPEALS

AUSTIN, TEXAS 7/24/2015 11:58:32 AM JEFFREY D. KYLE

CLERK

### TO THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS:

Appellees, the State of Texas, the Texas Department of Insurance and the

Texas Commissioner of Insurance (jointly, “the State”) and t he Farmers Parties 1



### (together with the State, the “Settling Parties”) file this Joint Motion to Dismiss

Gerald and Leslie Hookses’ App eal for Lack of Appellate Jurisdiction and Request

for Expedited Consideration o f Motion to show the Court as follows:

A RGUMENT AND 

### A UTHORITIES



### On July 20, 2015

— after the Settling Parties had already filed their Joint

Motion to Dismiss Appellant Charles O. “Chuck” Grigson’s (“Grigson’s”)

appeal

— a second set of intervenors, Gerald and Leslie Hooks (“Hookses”)

, filed a

Notice of Interlocutory Appea l from the district court’s July 6, 2015, Order of

Preliminary Approval. The Hookses’ Notice is identical to the Notice filed by

Grigson on July 15, 2015

. 2 

### The Hookses’ appeal is likewise deficient and

1 Farmers Group, Inc., Fire Underwriters Association, Farmers Underwriters Association, Farmers Insurance Exchange, Fire Insurance Exchange, Texas Farmers Insurance Company, Mid

- Century Insurance Company of Texas, Mid

- Century Insurance Company, Farmers Texas County Mutual Insurance Company, Truck Insurance Exchange, and Truck Underwriters Association

2 L ike Grigson’s counsel, the Hookses are also no t strangers to the long history of this case, which prevent s them (and any others) from pu rsuing this frivolous interlocutory appeal. The Hookses intervened in this case on May 16, 2003, on the eve of the first preliminary approval hearing; appealed the district court’s original 2003 Order certifying the settlement classes ; and exhausted that appeal years later after losing on all their objections before the Texas Supreme Court and this Court. See Farmers Grp., Inc. v. Lubin , 222 S.W.3d 417, 420, 427

- 28 (Tex. 2007); Lubin v. Farmers Grp., Inc. , No. 03

- 03

- 00374

- CV, 2009 WL 3682602, at *26

- 32 (T ex. App.

— Austin Nov. 6, 2009, no pet.) (rejecting all objections raised by the Hookses and noting

### 2 improper and should be dismissed on an expedited basis f or the same reasons

demonstrated in the Settling Parties’ Joint Motion to Dismiss Appeal for Lack of

Appellat e Jurisdiction and Request for Expedited Consideration of Motion

, which

was filed on July 20, 2015

, and the arguments of which are incorporated here by

reference.

C ONCLUSION



### For these reasons, the Settling Parties request that the Court: (i) expedite

cons ideration of this request; (ii) grant th e Appellees’ Joint Motion to Dismiss

Gerald and Leslie Hookses’ Appeal for Lack of Appellate Jurisdiction; (iii) dismiss

this appeal; and (iv) grant such other and further relief to which the Appellees are

entitled.

their “delay[] [in] becoming involved in this case until right before the certification hearing”). They are, as much as anyone, well aware that the district court certified the classes at issue back in 2003, given their participation in the proceedings that challenged that certification decision at the time.

These and other facts stated in this Motion are in the record, within the Court’s knowledge in its offi cial capacity, or in the personal knowledge of the undersigned, and so, no affidavit in support is needed. T EX

. R. A PP

. P . 10.2.

### 3 Date: July 2 4 , 2015 Respectfully submitted,

/s/ M. Scott Incerto Marcy Hogan Greer State Bar No. 08417650 mgreer@adjtlaw.com A LEXANDER D UBOSE J EFFERSON & T OWNSEND LLP 515 Congress Avenue, Suite 2350 Austin, Texas 78701

- 3562 Telephone: (512) 482

- 9300 Facsimile: (512) 482

- 9303

M. Scott Incerto State Bar No. 10388950 scott.incerto@nortonrosefulbright.com N ORTON R OSE F ULBRIGHT US LLP 98 San Jacinto Blvd., Suite 1100 Austin, Texas 78701 Telephone: 512

- 474

- 5201 Telecopier: 512

- 536

- 4598

Darryl W. Anderson State Bar No. 24008694 darryl.anderason@nortonrosefulbright.com Geraldine W. Young State Bar No. 24084134 geraldine.young@nortonrosefulbright.com N ORTON R OSE F ULBRIGHT US LLP 1301 McKinney, Suite 5100 Houston, Texas 77010 3095 Telephone: 713 651 5151 Telec opier: 713 651 5246

A TTORNEYS FOR D EFENDANTS

- A PPELLEES F IRE U NDERWRITERS A SSOCIATION , F ARMERS G ROUP , I NC ., F ARMERS U NDERWRITERS A SSOCIATION , F ARMERS I NSURANCE E XCHANGE , F IRE I NSURANCE E XCHANGE , T EXAS F ARMERS I NSURANCE C OMPANY , M ID

- C ENTURY I NSURANCE C OMPANY OF T EXAS , M ID

- C ENTURY I NSURANCE C OMPANY , F ARMERS T EXAS C OUNTY M UTUAL I NSURANCE C OMPANY , T RUCK I NSURANCE E XCHANGE , AND T RUCK U NDERWRITERS A SSOCIATION

### 4 Respectfully submitted,

KEN PAXTON Attorney General of Texas

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/ Joshua R. Godbey JOSHUA R. GODBEY Assistant Attorney General LEAD ATTORNEY State Bar No. 24049996 Telephone: (512) 475

- 4209 joshua.godbey@texasattorneygeneral.gov RYAN S. MINDELL Assistant Attorney General State Bar No. 24089707 Telephone: (512) 936

- 1721 ryan.mindell@texasattorneygeneral.gov JENNIFER S. JACKSON Assistant Attorney General State Bar No. 24060004 Telephone: (512) 463

- 9917 jennifer.jackson@texasattorneygeneral.gov Financial Litigation, Tax, and Charitable Trusts Division P.O. Box 12548 Austin, Texas 78711

- 2548 Fax: (512) 477

- 2348)

A TTORNEYS FOR P LAINTIFFS

- A PPELLEES , THE S TATE
OF T EXAS , THE T EXAS D EPARTMENT OF I NSURANCE , AND THE T EXAS C OMMISSIONER OF I NSURANCE

### 5 C ERTIFICATE OF 

### S ERVICE



### On July 2 4

, 2015 , I electronically filed th e Appellees’ Joint Motion to

Dismiss Gerald and Leslie Hookses’ App eal for Lack of Appellate Jurisdiction and

Request for Expedited Consideration o f Motion with the Clerk of the Court using

the eFile.TXCourts.gov electronic filing system which will send notification of

such filing to the following (unless otherwise noted below).

Joseph C. Blanks P.O. Box 999 Doucette, TX 75942 blanxlex@gmail.com

Counsel for Appellants Gerald and Leslie Hooks Michael J. Woods 8620 N. New Braunfels, Ste. 522 San Antonio, TX 78217 MichaelJWoods@sbcglobal.net

Pro Se Intervenor/Objector

Joe K. Long ley Philip K. Maxwell 1609 Shoal Creek Blvd. # 100 Austin, TX 78701 Joe@JoeLongley.com phil@philmaxwell.com

Counsel for Appellant Charles O. “Chuck” Grigson

/s/ M. Scott Incerto M. Scott Incerto

### 6 C ERTIFICATE OF CONFERENCE

I certify that , on July 20

, 2015, I conferred with Joseph C. Blanks , counsel

for Gerald and Leslie Hooks

, about the merits of the foregoing motion , pursuant to

Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 10.1(a)(5) , and he stated that the Hookses are

opposed to the motion.

/s/ M. Scott Incert o M. Scott Incerto

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE WITH TEX. R. APP. P. 9.4( i )

I certify that the foregoing document contains 737 words and complies with

the word limit set forth in Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.4(i).

/s/ M. Scott Incerto M. Scott Incerto