Opinion
NO. 14-17-00299-CV
06-20-2017
ORIGINAL PROCEEDING WRIT OF MANDAMUS
234th District Court Harris County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. 2015-35424
ORDER
On May 15, 2017, real party-in-interest Associates in Medicine, PA filed in this court a motion for leave to file under seal a portion of the appendix to its response to the petition for writ of mandamus. Associates in Medicine, PA asks this court for leave to file under seal the documents filed under Tabs B and D of the appendix to the response.
The documents filed as Tabs B and D were designated "CONFIDENTIAL/ATTORNEYS'-EYES ONLY" under an "Amended Agreed Protective Order," signed by the trial court on February 21, 2017. Paragraph 5.c of the Protective Order provides that information protected by the Protective Order shall be filed under seal in accordance with Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 76a. The parties, however, have not provided this court with an order of the trial court that seals the documents filed as Tabs B and D.
We will withhold our ruling on the motion and will not post the documents filed under Tabs B and D to the court's website at this time. The parties have twenty days from the date of this order to provide an order from the trial court permitting the filing of these documents under seal in that court and to supplement the mandamus record with a copy of that order. Failure to do so will result in the denial of the motion, unless, within that time frame, the parties present briefing, with citations to authority, to this court establishing a valid legal basis on which this court may maintain these documents under seal without an order sealing the documents in the trial court.
PER CURIAM Panel consists of Chief Justice Frost and Justices Donovan and Brown.