Order entered April 7, 2015

In The

Court of Appeals 

Fifth District of Texas at Dallas 

No. 05-15-00024-CV

IN RE DERRICK YOUNG, Relator

Original Proceeding from the 330th Judicial District Court

Dallas County, Texas

Trial Court Cause No. DF-08-18771

ORDER

Based on the Court’s opinion of this date, we CONDITIONALLY GRANT petition for 

writ of mandamus.

The Court ORDERS the Honorable Andrea Plumlee, Presiding Judge of the 330th 

Judicial District Court, to VACATE the November 10, 2014 Associate Judge’s Report and the 

January 5, 2015 Order Granting Intervenor’s Motion for Genetic Testing.

The Court ORDERS the Honorable Andrea Plumlee, Presiding Judge of the 330th 

Judicial District Court, to order DNA Diagnostics Center, and their officers, representatives, 

agents, servants, employees, attorneys, and those persons in active concert or participation with 

them, including any other testing agency or entity involved in the judicially ordered parentage 

testing in this case, to do the following: (a) permanently halt the processing and analysis of any 

genetic testing ordered in this case; (b) immediately destroy any samples taken for genetic 

testing; (c) NOT to disclose to anyone any results of any genetic testing conducted by DNA 
Diagnostics Center or any other testing agency or entity involved in judicially ordered parentage 

testing in this case; (d) immediately destroy any record of any testing results; and (e) certify to 

the trial court in writing, under oath, within ten days of the date of the order of the trial court, 

that the order of the trial court to halt processing and analysis, and destroy genetic samples and 

all records of any testing results, has been complied with;

The Court ORDERS the Honorable Andrea Plumlee, Presiding Judge of the 330th 

Judicial District Court, to order Derrick Young, Yolanda Roddy, Diron Thompson, all attorneys 

of record, and their officers, representatives, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, and those 

persons in active concert or participation with them, (a) NOT to disclose to anyone any results of 

any genetic testing conducted by DNA Diagnostics Center or any other testing agency or entity 

involved in judicially ordered parentage testing in this case; (b) immediately destroy any record 

of any testing results; and (c) certify to the trial court in writing, under oath, within ten days of 

the date of the order of the trial judge, that the order of the district judge to destroy any record of 

the testing results has been complied with;

The Court ORDERS the Honorable Andrea Plumlee, Presiding Judge of the 330th 

Judicial District Court, to order Derrick Young, Yolanda Roddy, Diron Thompson, DNA 

Diagnostics Center or any other testing agency or entity involved in judicially ordered parentage 

testing in this case, and all attorneys of record, to provide their officers, representatives, agents, 

servants, employees, attorneys, and those persons in active concert or participation with them, to 

the extent such individuals are involved in any genetic testing in this case, a copy of the district 

judge's orders entered in compliance with this Court's order;

The Court ORDERS the Honorable Andrea Plumlee, Presiding Judge of the 330th 

Judicial District Court, to order Derrick Young, Yolanda Roddy, Diron Thompson, DNA 
Diagnostics Center or any other testing agency or entity involved in judicially ordered parentage 

testing in this case, all attorneys of record, and their officers, representatives, agents, servants, 

employees, attorneys, and those persons in active concert or participation with them, that any 

information obtained as a result of the November 10, 2014 and January 5, 2015 orders for 

genetic testing not be used for any purpose at any time, including but not limited to the 

underlying litigation or any other judicial proceeding;

The Court ORDERS the Honorable Andrea Plumlee, Presiding Judge of the 330th 

Judicial District Court, to provide copies of the above orders to the Clerk of this Court and to 

certify to the Clerk of this Court the status of compliance with each of the orders that have been 

served upon the persons and parties identified in this opinion, within twenty (20) days of the 

date of this Court's order.

This Court's January 9, 2015 order of stay and this Court's February 17, 2015 order 

sealing any genetic testing reports REMAIN IN EFFECT until further order of this Court.

/s/ DOUGLAS S. LANG 

JUSTICE