Opinion
01-21-00427-CV
08-09-2021
In re Eagle Ship Management, LLC, Appellate
Trial court case number: 2019-71794; Trial court: 165th District Court of Harris County
ORDER
Peter Kelly, Justice
Relator, Eagle Ship Management, LLC, has filed a petition for writ of mandamus challenging the trial court's failure to rule on the joint motion to compel physical examination of plaintiff and real party in interest, Muhammad Kamram. This motion to compel was filed on November 2, 2020 and heard on November 16, 2020. Relator also challenges the trial court's failure to rule on the motion for second continuance and for entry of an amended docket control order filed on July 22, 2021. Relator has filed a motion for emergency relief, seeking a stay of the October 11, 2021 trial setting, all pretrial deadlines and all pretrial hearings pending resolution of this petition.
The Court grants relator's motion and stays the trial court's current docket control order deadlines for discovery, expert designations, challenges to expert testimony, dispositive motions, pleadings, docket call and trial, pending this Court's disposition of the petition for writ of mandamus or until further order of this Court.
The Court directs real parties in interest to file a response to the petition within 10 days of the date of this order.
It is so ORDERED.