Court Opinion

ID: 2749746
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2014-11-08 04:38:05.61069+00
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals
                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                                NO. 09-14-00454-CV
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                IN RE WILLIAMS AIR TECHNOLOGIES LLC

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                                Original Proceeding
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Williams Air Technologies LLC filed a petition for a writ of mandamus and

a motion for temporary relief through which it seeks to stay arbitration proceedings

that are scheduled to begin on October 17, 2014, and to compel the Judge of the

284th District Court of Montgomery County, Texas, to vacate the trial court’s

order of August 11, 2014, which compels arbitration in a suit on a contract

between Relator and one of the real parties in interest, Newport Classic Homes,

L.P. Relator contends the agreement is void due to unconscionability and argues

that the trial court erred in compelling arbitration because the real parties in interest

failed to produce evidence contrary to Relator’s evidence of the expense of

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arbitration and the inability to meet those expenses. Relator does not explain the

approximate two-month delay between the date on which the trial court signed the

order and the date Relator filed its petition seeking mandamus relief.

      After reviewing the mandamus petition and the record that Relator submitted

with its petition, we conclude that Relator has not shown that it is entitled to

mandamus relief. See Tex. R. App. P. 52.8(a). Accordingly, we deny the motion

for temporary relief and the petition for writ of mandamus. Id.

      PETITION DENIED.

                                                          PER CURIAM

Submitted on October 15, 2014
Opinion Delivered October 16, 2014

Before Kreger, Horton, and Johnson, JJ.

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