Court Opinion

ID: 9664523
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:20:33.81679+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:06.979272
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HECHT, Justice,
dissenting.
I agree with Justice CORNYN, for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion, that Bynum failed to show “good cause sufficient to require admission” of his testimony at trial. Tex.R.Civ.P. 215.5. Before excluding the testimony, however, I believe, for reasons that I expressed in Smith v. Southwest Feed Yards, Ltd., 835 S.W.2d 89, 94 (HECHT, J., concurring), that the trial court should have determined whether that sanction was appropriate under Trans-American Natural Gas Corp. v. Powell, 811 S.W.2d 913 (Tex.1991). I also join in Chief Justice PHILLIPS’ concurring opinion, except that I do not join in the Court’s judgment.