Court Opinion

ID: 6103491
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-14 06:12:09.607632+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:17:52.090572
License: Public Domain

In The

                                Court of Appeals

                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                               NO. 09-21-00403-CV
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                WAL-MART STORES TEXAS, LLC, Appellant

                                          V.

                           TONY PEAZLEY, Appellee

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               On Appeal from the 163rd District Court
                       Orange County, Texas
                     Trial Cause No. B210209-C
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                                      ORDER

      Wal-Mart Stores Texas, LLC, appellant, filed an unopposed motion to stay

the trial court proceedings pending completion of the appeal. On December 1, 2021,

the trial court signed an order denying a motion to stay litigation and compel

arbitration. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 51.016. On December 20, 2021,

Wal-Mart Stores Texas, LLC perfected an accelerated appeal from the trial court’s

order. See id.; see also Tex. R. App. P. 26.1(b).

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       When an accelerated appeal from an interlocutory order is perfected, we may

make such orders as are necessary to preserve the parties’ rights until disposition of

the appeal. Tex. R. App. P. 29.3. After reviewing the unopposed motion, we find

that temporary orders are necessary to preserve the parties’ rights until disposition

of the appeal. It is ORDERED that all trial court proceedings are STAYED until our

Opinion issues or until further order of this Court. See id.

      ORDER ENTERED January12, 2022.

                                                               PER CURIAM

Before Golemon, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.

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