NUMBER 13-15-00390-CV COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG IN RE NATIONAL LLOYDS INSURANCE COMPANY

On Petition for Writ of Mandamus.

ORDER Before Justices Rodriguez, Garza, and Longoria Per Curiam Order Relator, National Lloyds Insurance Company, filed a petition for writ of mandamus and an emergency motion for temporary relief in the above cause on August 27, 2015.

Through this original proceeding, relator seeks to compel the trial court to vacate its August 25, 2015 order compelling relator to answer and produce documents in response to discovery requests propounded by real parties in interest, Arguello, Hope, and Associates, PLLC, individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated. Real parties have filed a response and a supplemental response to relator’s emergency motion for temporary relief.

The Court, having examined and fully considered the emergency motion for temporary relief and the responses thereto, is of the opinion that said motion should be granted. The emergency motion for temporary relief is hereby GRANTED, and the trial court’s order of August 25, 2015 requiring the production of discovery is ordered STAYED pending further order of this Court, or until the case is finally decided. See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.10(b) (“Unless vacated or modified, an order granting temporary relief is effective until the case is finally decided.”). Further, in order to protect its jurisdiction and maintain the status quo of the case below, this Court sua sponte stays the hearing set in the trial court for August 31, 2015 and orders that the temporary restraining order previously issued by the trial court on August 6, 2015, and extended by order issued by the trial court on August 13, 2015 shall remain in effect pending this Court’s final decision in this case.

The Court requests that the real parties in interest, or any others whose interest would be directly affected by the relief sought, file a response to the petition for writ of mandamus on or before the expiration of seven days from the date of this order. See id. R. 52.2, 52.4, 52.8.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

PER CURIAM Delivered and filed the 28th day of August, 2015.