Rehm v. Clayton

Opinion of the Court by

Justice KELLER.

I. INTRODUCTION

Appellants appeal as a matter-of-right 1 from a Court of Appeals’s order that denied their petition for a writ prohibiting the trial court from staying discovery in a civil action pending the outcome of the appeal of summary judgments, which had dismissed some of the defendants in the case. Appellants alleged that the discovery stay “causes irreparable injury to [Appellants] and [their] ability to properly prepare [their] case.” The Court of Appeals denied the petition after finding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in…