Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-11-20 13:08:22.187907+00
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Opinion issued November 16, 2023

                                       In The

                               Court of Appeals
                                      For The

                           First District of Texas
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                               NO. 01-23-00627-CV
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         IN RE WAUKESHA-PEARCE INDUSTRIES, LLC, Relator

            Original Proceeding on Petition for Writ of Mandamus

                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      On August 25, 2023, relator Waukesha-Pearce Industries, LLC filed a petition

for writ of mandamus challenging the trial court’s order granting net worth

discovery.1 On August 28, 2023, the same day that our Court denied relator’s motion

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      The underlying case is Martin James Zeilinger, Individually and as Personal
      Representative of the Estate of Elizabeth Zeilinger, deceased; Bernice Nanette
      Odell; Blake Raymond Zeilinger; Randall Swenson, Individually and as Personal
      Representative of the Estate of Trey Swenson, deceased; Melissa Swenson; Makayla
      Hernandez; and Susan Wentz v. Waukesha-Pearce Industries LLC and Jacob Allen
      Svadlenak, cause number 2022-04906, pending in the 127th District Court of Harris
      County, Texas, the Honorable Ravi K. Sandill presiding.
for an emergency stay, relator filed a mandamus petition with the Texas Supreme

Court challenging the trial court’s discovery order. See In re Waukesha-Pearce

Industries, LLC, Case No. 23-0700-CV. After briefing by the parties, the Texas

Supreme Court denied relator’s mandamus petition on October 27, 2023. We now

deny the mandamus petition pending in our Court.

                                PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Chief Justice Adams and Justices Landau and Rivas-Molloy.

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