Matt Stiles has the latest response (PDF) in the Ray Jones/City of Houston dustup. I've already said what I think about this, and I'm not seeing anything to change my mind. I will say that Jones' attorney Richard Leach has a (to my non-lawyerly eyes) refreshingly casual approach to the legalistic mumbo-jumbo aspect of mandamuses. It's almost blogger-like in tone, really. Whether a judge will appreciate his stylings or not is another story, of course.