Fourth Court of Appeals

San Antonio, Texas

October 3, 2018

No. 04-17-00808-CV

Daniel CRISP,

Appellant

v.

Ismael CLAY,

Appellee

From the 131st Judicial District Court, Bexar County, Texas

Trial Court No. 2017CI10107

Honorable Angelica Jimenez, Judge Presiding

ORDER

This is an appeal from an enforcement order rendered against appellant Daniel Crisp. On 

December 11, 2017, the trial court signed an “Order Enforcing Prior Turnover Order,” requiring 

Crisp, the sole signatory on a certain TD Ameritrade account, to wire $406,917.50 to a receiver

that had been appointed in a previously rendered turnover order in favor of appellees, Ismael 

Clay, Joshua Kennedy, Matthew Arneson, Arthur Charles, Samone Drake, Phillip Erbe, 

Christopher Ramos, Christopher Rochon, Elric Thomas, Jimmie Walden, Jorge Garza, and 

Christopher Buza. 

During the pendency of this appeal, Crisp filed a “Motion to Abate Appeal,” requesting

this court to abate this appeal because he had filed a “Motion for Relief from Judgment under 

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)” in federal court. Crisp stated his motion for relief

challenged an underlying federal judgment upon which the turnover order and enforcement order 

are based. In his request for an abatement, Crisp indicated his motion for relief was set for a 

hearing before Magistrate Judge Bemporad on May 7, 2018. We therefore granted Crisp’s 

motion to abate and ordered the appeal abated pending resolution of any action relating to the 

“Motion for Relief from Judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)” filed by Crisp 

in Cause No. SA-17-CA-279-FB (HJB), Clay v. Mcanear and Crisp. We further ordered the 

parties to notify this court with a status update regarding the motion for relief. 

During the pendency of the abatement, the parties filed status reports to update this court 

with the status of the pending motion for relief. Through these filings, we were advised that on 

June 11, 2018, Judge Bemporad issued a Report and Recommendations, stating the motion for 
relief would be denied. In his report, he also indicated the parties could file objections to the 

report on or before June 25, 2018. We were further advised that Crisp filed such objections, and 

the objections were pending before the Honorable Fred Biery of the United States District Court. 

Most recently, on September 25, 2018, appellees filed an “Advisory to the Court and Motion to 

Lift the Stay of the Appeal,” advising that on September 18, 2018, Judge Biery has signed an 

Order Accepting the Report and Recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge. On 

September 28, 2018, appellant filed a “Response to Appellees’ Advisory to the Court and Motion 

to Lift Stay of the Appeal,” indicating he has thirty days to file a notice of appeal and requesting 

us to maintain the abatement of this appeal until at least October 18, 2018 – the deadline to file a 

notice of appeal. 

After consideration of the foregoing, we GRANT appellees’ motion to lift the stay of the 

appeal and ORDER the abatement lifted and appellate deadlines reinstated. At the time we 

abated this cause, both the clerk’s record and reporter’s record had been filed. Accordingly, we 

ORDER appellant to file his brief in this court on or before November 2, 2018.

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Marialyn Barnard, Justice

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said 

court on this 3rd day of October, 2018.

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KEITH E. HOTTLE,

Clerk of Court