Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-11-08 19:00:30.904887+00
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Case: 23-40044        Document: 00516960666             Page: 1      Date Filed: 11/08/2023

             United States Court of Appeals
                  for the Fifth Circuit                                          United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                          Fifth Circuit

                                     ____________                                       FILED
                                                                                 November 8, 2023
                                      No. 23-40044                                   Lyle W. Cayce
                                     ____________                                         Clerk

   Tonya Parks; Bennie Gibson; Francis Gibson; Nyanza
   Cook; Alexander Bednar,

                                                                  Plaintiffs—Appellants,

                                            versus

   AIG, an insurance company based in New York; Timothy
   Henderson, a removed Oklahoma Judge accused of crimes; David
   Prater, Oklahoma County District Attorney in his individual and official
   capacity; Mike Hunter, Resigned Oklahoma State Attorney General,
   individually and officially; Melissa Abernathy, Sheriff Deputy;
   Brett Slimp, Sheriff Deputy; Chicago Title, a California Insurance
   Company; Oklahoma County,

                                              Defendants—Appellees.
                     ______________________________

                     Appeal from the United States District Court
                          for the Eastern District of Texas
                               USDC No. 4:22-CV-991
                     ______________________________

   Before Graves, Higginson, and Ho, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *

         _____________________
         *
             This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 23-40044      Document: 00516960666           Page: 2   Date Filed: 11/08/2023

                                     No. 23-40044

          Plaintiffs/appellants are whistleblowers who complain of harassment,
   retaliation, and civil violations by Defendants/appellees, stemming from
   actions taking place in Oklahoma. Approximately three weeks after filing suit,
   plaintiffs filed an “emergency motion for a temporary restraining order, for
   preliminary injunction, and for expedited briefing schedule.” Four days later,
   the district court denied the ex parte emergency motion and held that it
   would address the motion once defendants had been served and given the
   opportunity to respond. Two days later, the district court issued an order
   transferring the case to the Western District of Oklahoma. Plaintiffs then
   filed a motion for reconsideration of the court’s order denying the temporary
   restraining order and transferring venue. They also asked for relief in the
   form of “enlargement of time, stay of litigation to conduct ADR, and for
   special master.” The court denied both motions on January 12, 2023. On
   January 23, 2023, Plaintiffs filed an emergency motion with this court “to set
   aside venue transfer, for preliminary injunction, and for writ of mandamus.”
   In their motion, Plaintiffs asked this court to issue a writ of mandamus to
   prevent the transfer of the case, and to grant a preliminary injunction. This
   court denied the Plaintiffs’ request in an unpublished order on February 7,
   2023. Plaintiffs’ current appeal is duplicative of the request made in their
   January 2023 emergency motion, and because this court has already made a
   ruling on Plaintiffs’ request, we decline to rule again.
                                      Conclusion
          Plaintiffs’ appeal is hereby DISMISSED.

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