Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-04-18 07:12:57.144861+00
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COURT OF APPEALS
                                EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
                                     EL PASO, TEXAS

 IN RE:                                           §
                                                                  No. 08-24-00007-CV
 LAW OFFICES OF MANNIE KALMAN,                    §
 P.C., as Successor Trustee of the VAL-ELIZ                 AN ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
 CHILDREN’S        TRUST,      VALOR     D.       §
 BLAZER, ELIZABETH BLAZER, and                                      IN MANDAMUS
 DAWN START BLAZER,                               §

                               Relators.          §

                                 MEMORANDUM OPINION

       Relators (the Law Offices of Mannie Kalman, P.C., as Successor Trustee of the Val-Eliz

Children’s Trust; Valor D. Blazer; Elizabeth Blazer; and Dawn Star Blazer) filed an original

petition for writ of mandamus requesting that we order the Honorable Melissa A. Baeza of El Paso

County’s County Court at Law Number 3 to vacate her orders (1) granting real parties in interest’s

motion to strike jury demand and enforce jury trial waivers, and (2) denying Relators’ motion for

permissive appeal.

       “Mandamus relief is an extraordinary remedy requiring the relator to show that (1) the trial

court clearly abused its discretion and (2) the relator lacks an adequate remedy by appeal.” In re

Kappmeyer, 668 S.W.3d 651, 654 (Tex. 2023). To be entitled to relief, Relators had the burden to

provide this Court with, among other things, “a certified or sworn copy of every document that is
material to the relator[s’] claim for relief and that was filed in any underlying proceeding[,]”

Tex. R. App. P. 52.7(a)(1), and either “a properly authenticated transcript of any relevant

testimony from any underlying proceeding, including any exhibits offered in evidence, or a

statement that no testimony was adduced in connection with the matter complained[,]” id.

Rule 52.7(a)(2). The documents contained in Relators’ record are not all certified or sworn copies.

Relators also failed to include either a transcript or statement consistent with Rule 52.7(a)(2). Thus,

Relators failed to provide a record sufficient to establish their right to any relief, and we deny their

petition for writ of mandamus.

                                               LISA J. SOTO, Justice

April 15, 2024

Before Alley, C.J., Palafox and Soto, JJ.

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