Comal County Court-at-Law for May 6th has been cancelled due to the court taking swine flu precautions. After at least one case of the flu was confirmed in Comal County, the county court-at-law judges, after consulting with county health officials (and after watching DVDs of Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later), decided to cancel the entire 276-person pretrial docket for Wednesday.
Apparently, the thought of being trapped in the same courtroom with (and breathing the same air as) some 300 criminal defendants hyperventilating about the fate of their respective cases was just too much to bear. There are no confirmed cases of swine flu originating at the courthouse; this is just being done because, even under normal circumstances, attending county court pretrial dockets are like being enclosed in a giant petri dish.
Better safe than sorry is the thinking. We have been trying hard to track down all of our clients who had cases on the docket so they do not show up by mistake. If we didn't catch you, we are sorry, and please contact us to make sure we have current contact information for you. We will not know new court dates until later this week. In the meantime, I highly recommend renting "28 Weeks Later", the sequel to "28 Days Later." I watched it while I was bed-ridden with tonsillitis -- it is better than the original, and it's the best pandemic movie of all time.