DISMISS and Opinion Filed October 28, 2014.

S

In The

Court of Appeals

Fifth District of Texas at Dallas

No. 05-14-01054-CV

JAY SANDON COOPER AND TERESA WARD COOPER, Appellants

V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, COLLIN COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY GREG WILLIS, 

CITY OF PLANO, TEXAS, THOMAS MUELENBECK, MARK ISRAELSON, 

BRUCE GLASSCOCK, SCOTT NEUMEYER, GREGORY RUSHIN, PETE GABRIEL, 

DOUGLAS ANGLE, RICHARD PEREZ, COURTNEY PERO, EARNEST OLDHAM,

GLENN KALETTA, EDDIE DELEON, JOSEPH CLAGGETT, JENNIFER DAY, 

JAMAL MURRAY, PAUL MCNULTY, AND CHAD BEOUGHER, 

ALL INDIVIDUALLY AND IN THEIR OFFICIAL CAPACITIES, Appellees

On Appeal from the 416th Judicial District Court

Collin County, Texas

Trial Court Cause No. 416-00043-2014

MEMORANDUM OPINION 

Before Justices Bridges, Lang, and Evans 

Opinion by Justice Lang

In a letter dated September 30, 2014, the Court questioned its jurisdiction over this 

appeal. Specifically, there did not appear to be an appealable order. We instructed appellants to 

file, within ten days, a letter brief addressing our jurisdictional concern with an opportunity for 

appellees to respond. As of today’s date, appellants have not filed a letter brief.

Generally, this Court has jurisdiction only over appeals from final judgments. See 

Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195 (Tex. 2001). A final judgment is one that 

disposes of all pending parties and claims. Id. An appellate court lacks jurisdiction to review an 

interlocutory order unless a statute specifically authorizes an exception to the general rule that 
–2–

appeals may only be taken from final judgments. See Qwest Communications Corp. v. AT&T 

Corp., 24 S.W.3d 334, 336 (Tex. 2000). 

In the notice of appeal, appellants state they are appealing from the “Orders/Rulings on 

Plaintiffs’ Motion to Strike, Plaintiffs’ Motion to Show Authority, and the Contest of Plaintiffs’ 

Rule 145 Affidavit.” None of these orders is a final judgment. Moreover, there is no statute 

authorizing an appeal from an indigency ruling pursuant to Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 145. 

See TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 51.014(a) (West Supp. 2014). Thus, there is no final 

judgment or appealable interlocutory order. For this reason, this Court lacks jurisdiction. 

We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(a).

141054F.P05

/Douglas S. Lang/

DOUGLAS S. LANG

JUSTICE
–3–

Court of Appeals

S

Fifth District of Texas at Dallas

JUDGMENT

JAY SANDON COOPER AND TERESA 

WARD COOPER, Appellants

No. 05-14-01054-CV V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, COLLIN 

COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY GREG 

WILLIS, CITY OF PLANO, TEXAS, 

THOMAS MUELENBECK, MARK 

ISRAELSON, BRUCE GLASSCOCK, 

SCOTT NEUMEYER, GREGORY 

RUSHIN, PETE GABRIEL, DOUGLAS 

ANGLE, RICHARD PEREZ, COURTNEY 

PERO, EARNEST OLDHAM, GLENN 

KALETTA, EDDIE DELEON, JOSEPH 

CLAGGETT, JENNIFER DAY, JAMAL 

MURRAY, PAUL MCNULTY, AND 

CHAD BEOUGHER, ALL 

INDIVIDUALLY AND IN THEIR 

OFFICIAL CAPACITIES, Appellees

On Appeal from the 416th Judicial District 

Court, Collin County, Texas.

Trial Court Cause No. 416-00043-2014.

Opinion delivered by Justice Lang. Justices 

Bridges and Evans, participating.

In accordance with this Court’s opinion of this date, the appeal is DISMISSED.

It is ORDERED that appellees THE STATE OF TEXAS, COLLIN COUNTY 

DISTRICT ATTORNEY GREG WILLIS, CITY OF PLANO, TEXAS, THOMAS 

MUELENBECK, MARK ISRAELSON, BRUCE GLASSCOCK, SCOTT NEUMEYER, 

GREGORY RUSHIN, PETE GABRIEL, DOUGLAS ANGLE, RICHARD PEREZ, 

COURTNEY PERO, EARNEST OLDHAM, GLENN KALETTA, EDDIE DELEON, JOSEPH 

CLAGGETT, JENNIFER DAY, JAMAL MURRAY, PAUL MCNULTY, AND CHAD 

BEOUGHER, ALL INDIVIDUALLY AND IN THEIR OFFICIAL CAPACITIES recover their 

costs of this appeal from appellants JAY SANDON COOPER AND TERESA WARD 

COOPER.

Judgment entered this 28th day of October, 2014.