Court Opinion

ID: 9748927
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Date Created: 2023-08-27 16:17:49.912261+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:40.730566
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MICHAEL H. SCHNEIDER, Chief Justice,
dissenting on overruling of motion for rehearing en banc.
I respectfully dissent from the overruling of appellee’s motion for rehearing en banc. I agree with and would join Justice Taft’s dissenting opinion, but I write separately to emphasize that the standard of review should be abuse of discretion, rather than that for summary judgment. Not only have other courts reviewed dismissals under section 13.01 of article 4590i for abuse of discretion,1 but, I conclude, the plain language of subsection 13.01(Z) also requires such review: “A court shall grant a motion challenging the adequacy of an expert report only if it appears to the Court, after hearing, that the report does not represent a good faith effort to comply with the definition of an expert report in Subsection(r)(6) of this section.” Tex.Rev. Civ. Stat. Ann. art. 4590i, § 13.01(Z) (Vernon Supp.1999) (emphasis added). I would follow that plain language and apply an abuse-of-discretion standard here. Michael H. Schneider Chief Justice
A majority of the Justices voted to overrule the motion for rehearing en banc.
Justice TAET joins Chief Justice SCHNEIDER’S dissent from the overruling of rehearing en banc.

. Tibbetts v. Gagliardi, No. 14-98-00843-CV, slip op. at 6, 2 S.W.3d 659, 663 (Tex.App.—Houston [14th Dist.] Sept.9, 1999, no pet. h.); Schorp v. Baptist Mem'l Health Sys., 5 S.W.3d 727, 730, (Tex.App.-San Antonio 1999, no pet. h.); Martinez v. Lakshmikanth, 1 S.W.3d 144, 146 (Tex.App.-Corpus Christi 1999, no pet. h.); Presbyterian Healthcare Sys. v. Afangideh, 993 S.W.2d 319, 323 (Tex.App.-Eastland 1999, pet. denied); Wood v. Tice, 988 S.W.2d 829, 832 (Tex.App.-San Antonio 1999, pet. denied); Estrello v. Elboar, 965 S.W.2d 754, 758 (Tex.App.-Fort Worth 1998, no pet.); see also Nguyen v. Kim, 3 S.W.3d 146, 151 (Tex.App.-Houston [14th Dist.] 1999, no pet. h.) (denial of motion to extend time to file expert report); Roberts v. Medical City Dallas Hosp., 988 S.W.2d 398, 402 (Tex.App.-Texarkana 1998, pet. denied) (same); Horsley-Layman v. Angeles, 968 S.W.2d 533, 536-37 (Tex.App.-Texarkana 1998, no pet.) (same).