Tex. R. App. P. 53.3

A response to the petition for review need not be

filed unless ordered by the Court. A petition will not

be granted before a response has been filed or ordered

by the Court. The response must conform to the

requirements of 53.2, except that:

(a) the introduction should identify the most

persuasive grounds for the Court to deny

review, which will vary by case, but will

often focus on the substantive legal reasons

that the respondent should prevail;

(b) the list of parties and counsel is not required

unless necessary to supplement or correct the

list contained in the petition;

(c) a statement of the case and a statement of the

facts need not be made unless the respondent

is dissatisfied with that portion of the

petition;

(d) a statement of the issues presented need not

be made unless:

(1) the respondent is dissatisfied with the

statement made in the petition;

(2) the respondent is asserting

independent grounds for affirmance of

the court of appeals’ judgment; or

(3) the respondent is asserting grounds

that establish the respondent's right to a

judgment that is less favorable to the

respondent than the judgment rendered

by the court of appeals but more

favorable to the respondent than the

judgment that might be awarded to the

petitioner (e.g., a remand for a new trial

rather than a rendition of judgment in

favor of the petitioner);

(e) a statement of jurisdiction should be omitted

unless the petition fails to assert valid

grounds for jurisdiction, in which case the

reasons why the Supreme Court lacks

jurisdiction must be concisely stated;

(f) the respondent’s argument must be confined

to the issues or points presented in the

petition or asserted by the respondent in the

respondent's statement of issues; and

(g) the appendix to the response need not contain

any item already contained in an appendix

filed by the petitioner.