Sal Maresca, Relators v. William Marks, Respondents

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court held that the trial judge abused his discretion by ordering the production of the relators' entire federal income tax returns without separating the relevant and material portions, but stayed the order and declined to issue a writ of mandamus. Two dissenting opinions argued that mandamus is unavailable to control discretionary judicial acts and that the order should be presumed valid and merely modified.