Disney in dissent

This is no Mickey Mouse deal.  To express his dissent in In Re: McAllen Medical Center Inc., Texas Supreme Court Justice Dale Wainwright quotes the lyrics from 1992’s Academy Award-winning song, “It’s a Whole New World,” from the Disney animated film “Aladdin.”  At issue in McAllen Medical Center is whether the state’s Supreme Court has jurisdiction over the interlocutory petition for a writ of mandamus in a med-mal case. In the May 16 decision, the high court’s majority determines it has jurisdiction.  Wainwright disagrees, writing, “A whole new world in mandamus practice . . . is here.”
-- Mary Alice Robbins