Legal Opinion

in Re BNSF Railway Company

Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)

Decided January 31, 2008No. 09-07-00538-CVPublished

1Opinion of the Court

In The

Court of Appeals

Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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NO. 09-07-538 CV

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IN RE BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY

Original Proceeding

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BNSF Railway Company filed a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the trial court to vacate its order requiring that BNSF produce documents requested by real party in interest Sidney Holmes. In a single issue, BNSF argues it was ordered to provide unlimited information and documents that were outside the scope of permissible discovery. We conditionally grant the petition in part.

Holmes sued BNSF under the…

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