Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-01-16 11:06:38.318369+00
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Opinion issued January 13, 2023

                                      In The

                               Court of Appeals
                                     For The

                          First District of Texas
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                              NO. 01-23-00011-CV
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    IN RE NANCY CARMEN CURNEL & RONALD CURNEL, Relators

            Original Proceeding on Petition for Writ of Mandamus

                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Relators, Nancy Carmen Curnel and Ronald Curnel, have filed a petition for

writ of mandamus challenging the trial court’s December 14, 2022 oral denial of

relators’ motion for sanctions seeking default judgment and to strike pleadings.1 In

conjunction with the petition, relators have filed a motion requesting an emergency

1
      The underlying case is Nancy Carmen Curnel and Ronald Curnel v. Houston
      Methodist Hospital-Willowbrook, et al., cause number 2016-36453, pending in the
      55th District Court of Harris County, Texas, the Honorable Latosha Lewis Payne
      presiding.
stay of the underlying trial court proceedings. We deny the mandamus petition and

dismiss the stay motion as moot.

                                   PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Justices Kelly, Landau, and Hightower.

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