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Date Created: 2024-05-06 09:09:59.647168+00
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Opinion issued April 30, 2024

                                        In The

                                Court of Appeals
                                       For The

                           First District of Texas
                             ————————————
                                NO. 01-24-00300-CV
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    IN RE SEYTH BOARDMAN AND SHAWNA BOARDMAN, Relators

            Original Proceeding on Petition for Writ of Mandamus

                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Relators, Seyth Boardman and Shawna Boardman, filed a petition for writ of

mandamus challenging the April 16, 2024 “Amended Order Appointing Special

Master” entered by the 11th District Court of Harris County, Texas (the “MDL

court”).1   Relators’ mandamus petition asserted that the MDL court’s order

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      On December 7, 2021, the Administrative Judge of the Civil Trial Division for the
      Harris County District Courts Board of Judges–Civil Division, entered an “Order
      Creating Special Docket for Astroworld Festival Cases.” In this order, the
      Administrative Judge ordered that “all cases filed . . . for damages and injuries
      arising out of, or related to, the ‘Astroworld Festival’ that took place on or about
appointing a special master amounted to an abuse of discretion for which they lack

an adequate appellate remedy.2 Relators therefore requested “that this Court grant

their petition for a writ of mandamus and issue [a] writ compelling the MDL court

to vacate its order appointing a special master.”

      Our review of relators’ mandamus petition reflects that relators have not

established that they are entitled to mandamus relief. Accordingly, we deny relators’

petition for writ of mandamus. See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.8(a). We dismiss any other

pending motions as moot.

                                    PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Chief Justice Adams and Justices Guerra and Farris.

      November 5, 2021, outside of NRG Park,” in Houston, Texas, would be
      “consolidate[d] to a special docket.” The Administrative Judge further appointed
      the 11th District Court of Harris County “to preside over the special docket” relating
      to the “Astroworld Festival.” Harris Cnty. Dist. Courts Bd. Of Judges – Civil
      Division, Order Creating Special Docket for Astroworld Festival Cases, Case No.
      2021-79885 (Dec. 7, 2021).
2
      The underlying case is In re Astroworld Festival Litigation, Master Docket Case
      No. 2021-79885, in the 11th District Court of Harris County, Texas, the Honorable
      Kristen Hawkins presiding.

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