Court Opinion

ID: 9778442
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 21:04:40.380103+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:09.012161
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
A position advanced in appellants’ motion for rehearing requires additional comment. Appellants view our opinion as holding that the discovery procedures provided under Tex.R.Civ.P. 167 and 168, which by their language are applicable to judicial proceedings, were available and should have been utilized by them for the October, 1977 hearing before AQHA’s executive committee. We did not so hold.
Perhaps, as we discussed the parallelism of administrative hearings and judicial proceedings, we should have more clearly stated that all comments concerning Rules 167 and 168 were referenced only to their application to judicial proceedings. Nevertheless, our discussion of the rules was in relation to judicial proceedings to illustrate, by analogy, that something more than a mere request for unfurnished information is necessary to show that an administrative hearing held without the production of that information was unfair. Our holding, following the declaration that appellants were entitled to a fair hearing before the executive committee after due notice by procedures analogous to judicial proceedings, was that the hearing before the executive committee in the absence of information merely requested, without more, cannot be said, as a matter of law, to be violative of due process.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.
COUNTISS, J., not participating.