in Re State Board for Educator Certification

This mandamus action poses one procedural question: Does a trial court have discretion to deny suspension of a non-money judgment when the State files a notice of appeal?

Here, a schoolteacher sought judicial review of the State Board for Educator Certification’s revocation of his teaching certificate. The trial court reversed the revocation and refused to allow the Board to supersede the judgment pending ap*803peal. Importantly, the merits of the underlying appeal are not before us; they remain pending in the court of appeals. We deal solely with the State’s request for a writ of mandamus…