Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-01-23 07:09:10.784204+00
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COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE
                           FIRST DISTRICT OF TEXAS AT HOUSTON

                                            ORDER

Appellate case name:         In re Pinnergy, Ltd. and LaDonta Sweatt
Appellate case number:       01-23-00022-CV
Trial court case number:     2022-45392
Trial court:                 80th District Court of Harris County
       On January 13, 2023, relators, Pinnergy, Ltd. and LaDonta Sweatt, filed a petition
for a writ of mandamus. In the mandamus petition, relators challenged the trial court’s
December 27, 2022 order denying the Motion to Dismiss for Forum Non-Conveniens filed
by relator, Pinnergy, Ltd., and real party in interest Union Pacific Railroad Company.
       Also on January 13, 2023, relators filed an “Emergency Motion to Stay Proceedings
of Trial court,” seeking emergency temporary relief in the form of a “stay of the trial court’s
December 27, 2022 order denying the Motion to Dismiss for Forum Non-Conveniens,” as
well as a “stay of any discovery or further proceedings in the underlying lawsuit” pending
this Court’s resolution of the mandamus petition. Relators allege that the stay is necessary
because they “will not have an adequate remedy by appeal if forced to incur the time and
expense of discovery in the Harris County suit . . . while simultaneously litigating the suits
properly filed in Red River Parish, Louisiana.”
      Relator’s motion for temporary relief is granted. See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.10. All
proceedings in trial court case number 2022-45392, including, but not limited to, written
discovery, are stayed. This stay is effective until disposition of relators’ petition for writ
of mandamus or further order of this Court.
       We further request a response to the petition for writ of mandamus from the real
parties in interest. The response(s), if any, is due to be filed with this Court no later
than twenty days following the date of this order.
      It is so ORDERED.

Judge’s signature: ____/s/ Amparo Guerra________
                    Acting individually  Acting for the Court

Date: ___January 17, 2023___