### ORDERED: 

## IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS
Misc. Docket No. 15- 

# 9054

TRANSFER OF CASES FROM COURTS OF APPEALS

I. 

### Except as otherwise provided 

### by this Order, the first 18 cases filed in the Court ofAppeals for the Second Court of Appeals District, Fort Worth, Texas, on or after March 9, 2015, are transferred to the Court ofAppeals for the Seventh Court ofAppeals District, Amarillo, Texas. II. 

### Except as otherwise provided 

### by this Order the first 22 cases filed in the Court ofAppeals for the Third Court ofAppeals District, Austin, Texas, on or after March 2, 2015, are transferred to the Court ofAppeals for the Seventh Court ofAppeals District, Amarillo, Texas; and the next 23 cases tiled in the Court of Appeals for the Third Court of Appeals District, Austin, Texas, are transferred to the Court ofAppeals for the First Court ofAppeals District, Houston, Texas. 

### III. Except as otherwise provided 

### by this Order, the first 10 cases filed in the Court ofAppeals for the Fourth Court of Appeals District, San Antonio, Texas, on or after March 9, 2015, are transferred to the Court ofAppeals for the Thirteenth Court of Appeals District, Corpus Christi, Texas. IV. Except as otherwise provided 

### by this Order, the first 21 cases filed in the Court ofAppeals for the Fifth Court ofAppeals District, Dallas, Texas, on or after March 2, 2015, are transferred to the Court ofAppeals for the Eighth Court ofAppeals District, El Paso, Texas. V. 

### Except as otherwise provided 

### by this Order, the first 23 cases filed in the Court ofAppeals for the Ninth Court ofAppeals District, Beaumont, Texas, on or after March 5, 2015, are transferred to the Court ofAppeals for the Fourteenth Court ofAppeals District, Houston, Texas.VI. Except as otherwise provided by this Order, the first 18 cases filed in the Court ofAppeals for the Tenth Court ofAppeals District, Waco, Texas, on or after March 5, 2015, are transferred to the Court ofAppeals for the Eighth Court ofAppeals District, El Paso, Texas.
For purposes ofdetermining the effective date oftransfers pursuant to this order, "filed" in a court ofappeals means the receipt ofnotice ofappeal by the court ofappeals. In effectuating this Order, companion cases shall either all be transferred, or shall all be retained by the Court in which filed, as determined by the ChiefJustice ofthe transferring Court, provided that cases which are companions to any case filed before the respective operative dates of transfer specified above, shall be retained by the Court in which originally filed. 

### It is specifically provided that the cases ordered transferred by this Order shall, in each instance, not include original proceedings; appeals from interlocutory orders; appeals from denial ofwrits ofhabeas corpus; appeals in extradition cases; appeals regarding the amount ofbail set in a criminal case; appeals from trial courts and pretrial courts in multidistrict litigation pursuant to Rule 13.9(b) of the Rules of Judicial Administration; appeals in cases involving termination of parental rights; and those cases that, in the opinion ofthe ChiefJustice ofthe transferring court, contain extraordinary circumstances or circumstances indicating that emergency action may be required. The transferring Court ofAppeals will make the necessary orders for transfer ofthe cases as directed hereby, and will cause the Clerk ofthat Court to transferthe appellate record in each case, and certify all orders made, to the court ofappeals to whichthe cases are transferred. When a block ofcases is transferred, the transferring court will implement the transfer ofthe case files in groups not less than once a month, or after all the requisite number of cases have been filed. Upon completionofthetransferoftherequisite numberofcasesorderedtransferred, thetransferring Court shall submit a list ofthe cases transferred, identified by style and number, to the State Office of Court Administration, and shall immediately notify the parties or their attorneys in the cases transferred ofthe transfer and the court to which transferred. The provisions ofMisc. Docket Order No. 06-9136 shall apply. SO ORDERED this day ofMarch, 2015.

an L. Hecht, ChiefJustice

# ~ Paul W. Green, Justice

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