In Re Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP v. the State of Texas

Opinion issued September 30, 2025

In The

Court of Appeals
For The

First District of Texas
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NO. 01-25-00520-CV
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IN RE QUINN EMANUEL URQUHART & SULLIVAN, LLP., Relator

Original Proceeding on Petition for Writ of Mandamus

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Relator, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP., has filed a petition for

writ of mandamus, requesting that we issue a writ of mandamus directing the trial
court to vacate its June 9, 2025 order that denied Quinn Emanuel’s Motion to

Quash and for Protective Order and compelled the deposition of John Quinn.1

Relator has now filed an Unopposed Motion for Voluntary Dismissal of its

petition for writ of mandamus, stating that “[t]he parties have settled the

underlying litigation rendering this mandamus action concerning discovery moot.”

See In re Jackson, No. 01-12-00020-CV, 2012 WL 405707, at *1 (Tex. App.—

Houston [1st Dist.] Feb. 9, 2012, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.) (dismissing

mandamus petition as moot after relator received relief requested). Relator’s

motion includes a certificate of conference and a certificate of service, and no party

has opposed the relief requested in the motion. See TEX. R. APP. P. 10.1(a)(5),

10.3(a)(2).

Accordingly, we grant the motion and dismiss the petition for writ of

mandamus. We dismiss any other pending motions as moot.

PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Justices Rivas-Molloy, Guiney, and Morgan.

1
The underlying case is Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP., v. Jack
Stephens Pursley, cause number 2018-19781, pending in the 157th District Court
of Harris County, the Honorable Tanya Garrison presiding.
2