NUMBER 13-21-00201-CV
COURT OF APPEALS
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG
IN RE TARUNKUMAR “RAVI” MURJANI
AND MURJANI INVESTMENT GROUP, LLC
On Petition for Writ of Mandamus.
ORDER
Before Justices Longoria, Hinojosa, and Tijerina
Order Per Curiam
On June 24, 2021, relators Tarunkumar “Ravi” Murjani and Murjani Investment
Group, LLC filed a petition for writ of mandamus and a motion for emergency temporary
relief in this cause. Through this original proceeding, relators seek to compel the trial court
to vacate its June 4, 2021, order compelling relators to produce discovery in trial court
cause number P-36,766-A in the Probate Court of Hidalgo County, Texas. Relators assert
that the trial court abused its discretion and acted without plenary power and the requisite
jurisdiction when (1) it issued a discovery order compelling relators’ “extensive”
production of documents; (2) the discovery order was inconsistent with a final agreed
order, which rendered the documents sought irrelevant; (3) the document production
“served no other purpose but to facilitate one party’s improper and untimely efforts to
contest the relief afforded through the final agreed order”; and (4) the discovery order
compelled the production of documents “that had no relevance to the solely pleaded claim
for declaratory judgment.” By motion for emergency temporary relief, relators seek to stay
enforcement of this order. Real parties in interest Raju Murjani, individually, and Sunder
Murjani, individually and as independent executor of the estate of Lal Rewachand Murjani,
deceased, have filed a “Joint Response to Motions for Temporary Relief” through which
they oppose relator’s request for temporary relief in this proceeding and in the companion
case filed separately in our appellate cause number 13-21-00200-CV.
The Court, having examined and fully considered the motion for emergency
temporary relief and the joint response thereto, is of the opinion that the motion for
emergency temporary relief should be granted. Accordingly, we grant the relators’ motion
for emergency temporary relief, and we order the trial court’s order of June 4, 2021, to be
stayed pending resolution of this original proceeding. 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.”).
The Court requests that the real parties in interest, Raju Murjani and Sunder
Murjani, and Anjali Murjani Jhangiani, Tanuja Moorjani, and Rajesh Jhangiani, or any
others whose interest would be directly affected by the relief sought, including Sunder
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Murjani in his capacity as independent executor of the estate of Lal Rewachand Murjani,
deceased, file a response to the petition for writ of mandamus on or before the expiration
of ten days from the date of this order. See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.2, 52.4, 52.8.
PER CURIAM
Delivered and filed on the
25th day of June, 2021.
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