Order filed August 24, 2021. 

In The

Fourteenth Court of Appeals

____________

NO. 14-20-00765-CV

____________

ZHAOHONG WU AND YANJING ZHOU, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS NEXT 

FRIENDS OF K.W. AND E. W., THEIR MINOR CHILDREN, 

Appellants

V.

LUMBER LIQUIDATORS, INC. AND WOOD FLOOR ARTISANS, A 

GENERAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED OF VICTOR 

MARTINEZ-MEDINA, INDIVIDUALLY, AND AMBER LEE 

MARTINEZ, INDIVIDUALLY, Appellees

On Appeal from the 164th District Court

Harris County, Texas

Trial Court Cause No. 2016-08354

ORDER

Appellants filed a motion to supplement the clerk’s record with “Exhibit J”

to their response to appellees’ summary-judgment motion filed January 20, 2020

and place Exhibit J under seal on appeal. Regarding appellants’ request to 

supplement the clerk’s record, we take no action and issue the following guidance, 

which can also be found on the court’s website:

The proper procedure for a party to supplement the clerk’s record is by 
written request to the trial court clerk—no motion or order is needed in the court of 

appeals. Motions filed in the court of appeals will not be ruled on by the court. If a 

party needs to rely on a trial court document that is part of the record below that is 

not yet part of the clerk’s record on appeal, a party should put a copy of the 

document in the appendix to their brief, with a notation that the official document 

has been requested from the clerk.

Regarding appellants’ request to seal Exhibit J, appellants have not provided 

this court with a permanent sealing order from the trial court that complies with the 

requirements of Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 76a that seals the requested 

documents after the mandatory public notice of the motion to seal and the filing of 

verified copies of that posted notice with the clerk of the trial court and the clerk of 

the supreme court. Tex. R. Civ. P. 76a(3). Among other things, Rule 76a requires 

the sealing order to state, “the specific reasons for finding and concluding whether 

the showing required by paragraph 1, has been made; the specific portions of court 

records which are to be sealed; and the time period for which the sealed portions of 

the court records are to be sealed.” Tex. R. Civ. P. 76a(6). 

Appellants have 10 days from the date of this order to file a motion to seal 

court records, give notice and file the required verified copies in the trial court and 

supreme court, and request a hearing on the motion. If the appellants do not 

comply, then appellees may notify this court and the appeal will be set for 

submission without the requested supplemental clerk’s record. If appellants do 

comply, the clerk of the trial court is instructed to prepare, certify, and file a 

supplemental clerk’s record containing the motion to seal, required notices, any 

responses in opposition, and the trial court’s order pertaining to Exhibit J to their 

response to appellees’ summary-judgment motion filed January 20, 2020. The 

clerk of the trial court has 15 days from the date of the trial court’s signed sealing 

order to file the supplemental clerk’s record with the clerk of this court.

PER CURIAM
Panel Consists of Justices Jewell, Spain, and Wilson.