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Date Created: 2023-05-31 06:10:15.609535+00
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DENIED and Opinion Filed May 23, 2023

                                      In The
                            Court of Appeals
                     Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                               No. 05-23-00495-CV

     IN RE STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE COMPANY AND
              BRITTANY MAEGAN PIERPONT, Relators

           Original Proceeding from the County Court at Law No. 2
                            Dallas County, Texas
                    Trial Court Cause No. CC-22-03601-B

                        MEMORANDUM OPINION
                 Before Justices Pedersen, III, Nowell, and Miskel
                            Opinion by Justice Nowell
      Before the Court are relators’ May 22, 2023 petition for writ of mandamus

and emergency motion to stay. Relators challenge the trial court’s May 15, 2023

“Order Denying Defendants’ Motion to Quash Plaintiff’s Notice of Intent to Take

Oral and Video-Taped Deposition of Defendant State Farm’s Corporate

Representative and Motion for Protective Order.”

      Entitlement to mandamus relief requires relators to show that the trial court

clearly abused its discretion and that relators lack an adequate appellate remedy. In

re Prudential Ins. Co. of Am., 148 S.W.3d 124, 135–36 (Tex. 2004) (orig.
proceeding). After reviewing relators’ petition and the record before us, we conclude

that relators have failed to demonstrate entitlement to mandamus relief.

      Accordingly, we deny the petition for writ of mandamus. See TEX. R. APP. P.

52.8(a).

      We also deny relators’ emergency motion as moot.

      Further, relators’ May 22, 2023 “Verified Record in Support of Petition for

Writ of Mandamus” contains unredacted sensitive information, including driver’s

license and tax-identification numbers, in violation of Texas Rule of Appellate

Procedure 9.9. See TEX. R. APP. P. 9.9. Accordingly, we STRIKE relators’

mandamus record.

230495f.p05                                /Erin A. Nowell//
                                           ERIN A. NOWELL
                                           JUSTICE

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