Opinion
NO. 03-17-00705-CV
10-27-2017
In re United Parcel Service, Inc., and Matthew Zaner
FROM THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 2 OF TRAVIS COUNTY, NO. D-1-GN-16-001125, HONORABLE ERIC SHEPPERD, JUDGE PRESIDING ORDER
PER CURIAM
On October 25, 2017—their deadline for compliance—relators, United Parcel Service, Inc., and Matthew Zaner, filed a petition for mandamus relief from an order, signed on September 25, 2017, that compels certain discovery and imposes sanctions. Relators also moved for temporary relief pending our disposition of their mandamus petition. We grant Relators' motion for temporary relief solely to the following limited extent.
Relators complain in part that "the order is extremely overbroad, vague, confusing, and grants relief not even requested" by (1) "appear[ing] to apply to both Relators when Plaintiffs' motion and responses actually only sought [discovery] from Relator UPS" and (2) "appear[ing] to "declare that both Relators have waived all privileges with request to all of Plaintiff's discovery requests, including requests not even at issue in Plaintiffs' motion to compel." The order is arguably unclear as to whether this was the trial court's intent, so we order the parties to present these questions to the trial court for clarification and supplement the record with that ruling. To the extent the order can be read to grant this "relief not even requested," we temporarily stay it pending further order of this Court. The underlying petition will remain pending.
It is ordered on October 27, 2017. Before Chief Justice Rose, Justices Pemberton and Field