In re: Caballero

OPINION

DORSEY, Justice.

In this mandamus action, San Juana Caballero, Petitioner, seeks to set aside a trial court’s order compelling her to submit to a gynecological examination. We hold that the trial court abused its discretion in ordering the petitioner to submit to such an examination, and conditionally grant the writ of mandamus.

San Juana Caballero brought suit against J.C. Penney Company, Payless Shoe Stores and IPC International for injuries she sustained as a result of being falsely accused of shoplifting from the J.C. Penney’s store at Amigoland Mall in Brownsville, Texas. One of her…