Opinion issued August 8, 2023

In The

Court of Appeals 

For The 

First District of Texas 

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NO. 01-21-00268-CV

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ALI YAZDCHI AND AHMAD YAZDCHI, Appellants

V.

WELLS FARGO, Appellee

On Appeal from the 215th District Court

Harris County, Texas

Trial Court Case No. 2015-11585

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Appellants Ali Yazdchi and Ahmad Yazdchi appeal from the trial court’s 

December 14, 2020 order granting summary judgment and the trial court’s February 

22, 2021 order striking Ahmad Yazdchi’s intervention, and severing the December 
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14, 2020 order into a separate cause so that it could be final and appealable. We 

dismiss this appeal.

Ali Yazdchi has been adjudicated a vexatious litigant and is subject to three 

prefiling orders, including one from this trial court case: 

https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1278447/Ali-Yazdchi-Case-No-2015-11585-

01_15_2016.pdf. This order prohibits Ali Yazdchi from filing any new pro se 

litigation without permission from the appropriate local administrative judge. 

Moreover, “a clerk of a court may not file a litigation, original proceeding, appeal, 

or other claim presented, pro se, by a vexatious litigant subject to a prefiling order . 

. . unless the litigant obtains an order from the appropriate local administrative judge 

described by Section 11.102(a) permitting the filing.” TEX.CIV. PRAC.&REM.CODE 

§ 11.103(a). 

On December 13, 2022, this Court issued an order stating that, although Ali 

Yazdchi was represented by counsel when the notice of appeal was filed, the Court 

received a suggestion of death on October 19, 2021, advising the Court that Ali 

Yazdchi’s counsel had died on September 13, 2021, approximately four months after 

counsel filed the notice of appeal. Moreover, a review of documents filed in this 

appeal indicates that counsel did not file any documents other than the notice of 

appeal. Because Ali Yazdchi is not represented by counsel, the Court directed him 

to provide proof of permission to appeal by the local administrative judge or the 
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appeal would be subject to dismissal. See TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE 

§ 11.103(a). Yazdchi has not filed proof of permission to appeal. 

Moreover, appellants Ali Yazdchi and Ahmad Yazdchi have not paid the 

filing fee. The Court sent a notice to appellants on June 17, 2021 advising them that 

the filing fee was past due and that unless the filing fee was paid on or before July 

15, 2021, the Court might dismiss the appeal. On June 17, 2021, Ali Yazdchi filed 

a statement of inability in this Court. Ahmad Yazdchi filed no response to our notice 

and filed no statement of inability. See TEX. R. APP. P. 5, 20.1; see also TEX. GOV’T 

CODE ANN. §§ 51.207, 51.208, 51.941(a), 101.041; Order Regarding Fees Charged 

in the Supreme Court, in Civil Cases in the Courts of Appeals, and Before the 

Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation, Misc. Docket No. 15-9158 (Tex. Aug. 

28, 2015).

Accordingly, we dismiss Ali Yazdchi’s appeal for failure to comply with the 

requirement in Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code section 11.103 that he 

provide proof of permission to appeal. We dismiss Ahmad Yazdchi’s appeal for 

want of prosecution. Any pending motions are dismissed as moot.

PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Justices Kelly, Hightower, and Countiss.