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 , Appellant s
V.

LUMBER LIQUIDATORS, I NC. AND WOOD FLOOR ARTISANS, A

GENERAL PARTNERSHIP COMPOSED OF VICTOR MARTINEZ

- MEDINA, INDIVIDUALLY, AND AMBER LEE

MARTINEZ, INDIVIDUALLY , Appellee s

On Appeal from the 164th District Court

Harris County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. 2016

- 08354



### ORDER

A p pell ant s filed a motio n t o supplement the clerk ’ s record with “ Exhibit J ” to their response to appellees ’ summ ary

- judgment motion filed January 20, 202 0
and pla ce Exhibit J under seal on appeal . Regarding appellant s ’ re quest to

s upplement the c lerk ’ s recor d, we ta ke no action and issue the follo wing guid ance , which can also be fou nd on the cour t ’ s website: The proper procedure for a party to supplement the clerk’s record is bywritten request to the trial court clerk

— no motion or order is neede d in t he cour t 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 cop y of th e document in the appendix to their brief, with a notation that the official document has been requeste d from the clerk.
Regarding appellants ’ request t o seal Exhibit J
, appellants ha ve not provided this court with a permanent sealing order fr om the trial court that complies with the requirements of Texas Rule of Civil Proc edure 76 a that seals the requested
documents after the mandatory public notice of the motion to seal and the filing of verified cop ies of that post ed no t ice with the clerk of the trial co urt 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 whethe r the showing required by parag raph 1, ha s been made; the specific port ions of court
records which are to b e sealed; and the time period for which the sealed portions of
the co urt records ar e to be sealed. ” Tex. R. Civ. P. 76a(6).
Appe ll ant s ha ve 10 days fr om the date of this order to file a motion to seal
court records , giv e notice and file the required verified copies in the trial court and supreme court , and request a hearing on the motion. If the appellant s do not comply, then appelle es may notify this court and the appeal wi ll be set f or submission without the requested supplemental clerk ’ s record. If appel l ants do comply, t he cler k of the trial court is instructed to prepare, certify, and file a supplemental clerk ’ s record containing the motion to seal
, required notices
, an y responses in opposition, and the trial court ’ s order pertaining to Exhibit J to their response to appellees ’ summ ary

- judgment motion filed January 20, 202 0

. The
clerk of the trial court has 15 days from the date of the trial court ’ s si gned sealing
order t o fil e the supplemental clerk ’ s re cord with the clerk of this court

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PER CU R IAMPanel Consists of Justices Jewell, Spain, and Wilson.