Farmers Insurance Exchange; Fire Insurance Exchange; Texas Farmers Insurance Company, Mid-Century Insurance Company of Texas; Mid-Century Insurance

Company; et al, Appellees

FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, 261ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT

NO. GV202501, HONORABLE SCOTT H. JENKINS, JUDGE PRESIDING

PER CURIAM

Appellants seek an emergency stay of the sending of notices to the class preliminarily certified below by the district court until this Court rules in this interlocutory appeal. Because the district court's preliminary certification of a settlement-only class will cause immediate, significant and potentially irreparable effects in this case and to prevent interference or impairment with this Court's jurisdiction or the effectiveness of any appellate relief we may subsequently grant, the Order of Preliminary Approval, signed by the district court on June 27, 2003, is hereby stayed in all respects until further order of this Court.

It is ordered on this the 7th day of July, 2003.

Before Justices B. A. Smith, Yeakel and Puryear