Opinion ID: 2634494
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Text: ¶1 On January 10, 2001, plaintiff Jau-Fei Chen brought suit against her sister, defendant Jau-Hwa Stewart, and the family corporation, E. Excel, of which Jau-Hwa was president at that time. In the suit Jau-Fei claimed corporate waste, breach of fiduciary duty, and improper removal of a director. On March 13, 2001, the parties stipulated to the removal of Jau-Hwa Stewart from her position as president of E. Excel and agreed to the appointment of an interim CEO, Larry Holman, to run the company during the pendency of the lawsuit. On October 29, 2001, the interim CEO filed a cross-claim against Jau-Hwa Stewart and third-party defendants Hwan Lan Chen (Jau-Hwa and Jau-Fei's mother) and Taig Stewart, (Jau-Hwa Stewart's husband) as well as other individuals the court later found to have been working in concert with Hwan Lan Chen and Jau-Hwa Stewart. On October 16, 2002, the trial court entered a preliminary injunction barring all defendants from worldwide competition with E. Excel. Within ten days, Hwan Lan Chen filed a motion, in which Jau-Hwa and Taig Stewart joined, to vacate the trial court's orders relating to Mr. Holman's appointment as interim CEO. The trial court denied Hwan Lan Chen's motion to vacate. This court granted defendants' petition for an interlocutory appeal from the trial court's decision. We affirm.