in Re: Ford Motor Company







NUMBER 13-04-437-CV


COURT OF APPEALS


THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS


CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG

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IN RE FORD MOTOR COMPANY

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On Petition for Writ of Mandamus ___________________________________________________________________


MEMORANDUM OPINION


Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Hinojosa and Wittig

Per Curiam Memorandum Opinion


         Relator, Ford Motor Company, filed a motion for emergency relief and petition for writ of mandamus in the above cause on August 20, 2004. That same day, the Court took the motion for emergency relief under consideration and granted it, in part, to the extent that real parties in interest could not present testimony from Donald Friedman at trial pending a further ruling from this Court. Trial itself was not stayed. The Court requested that real parties in interest file a response to relator’s petition for writ of mandamus on or before Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 12:00 noon.

          The Court, having examined and fully considered the petition for writ of mandamus and the response, is of the opinion that relator has not shown itself entitled to the relief sought and the petition for writ of mandamus should be denied. See Tex. R. App. P. 52.8. Accordingly, the stay is hereby ordered LIFTED. The petition for writ of mandamus is DENIED.

                                                                        PER CURIAM


Wittig, J., not participating.


Memorandum Opinion delivered and filed

this 24th day of August, 2004.