Ex Parte Jim Burke Automotive, Inc.

Jim Burke Automotive, Inc., a defendant in an action pending in the Perry Circuit Court, petitions for a writ of mandamus directing Judge Thomas ap R. Jones to vacate his order denying Jim Burke's motion to dismiss the case or to transfer it, and to enter an order transferring the pending action to the Jefferson Circuit Court; to vacate his order continuing Jim Burke's motion to compel arbitration, entered for the purpose of allowing the plaintiff to conduct discovery; and to vacate his order allowing general, unlimited discovery. We grant the petition in part and deny it in part.

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