In Re SCI Texas Funeral Services, Inc.

The trial court here ordered class-wide discovery and class-wide sanctions long before it certified the class. In two separate appeals, the court of appeals upheld the discovery and sanctions but then reversed certification, rendering the class-wide discovery superfluous and the class-wide sanctions incongruous. We conditionally grant the writ and order the trial court to vacate its orders in light of the decertification. See In re Allstate County Mut. Ins. Co., 227 S.W.3d 667, 668-69 (Tex.2007) (per curiam) (granting mandamus to correct overbroad discovery); Walker v. Packer, 827 S.W.2d 833,…