Opinion issued December 5, 2019

In The 

## Court of Appeals For The 

## First District of Texas

———————————— NO. 01
- 19
- 00723
- CV

——————————— BISHARA DENTAL PLLC , Appella nt

V. OUTFRONT MEDIA LLC, OUTFRONT MEDIA G ROUP LLC, FOR MERLY KNOWN AS CBS O UTDOOR LLC, CLAUDIO IANNITELLI, GARY SHAPLEY, ALLAN D. GOLDSTEIN, SHAWN MORGAN, TRACK DOWN, INC. , Appell e e s

On Appeal from the 133rd District Court

Harris County, Texas Trial Court Ca se No. 2019
- 35525

MEMORANDU M OPIN ION Appellant, B ishara Dental PLLC, filed a timely no tice of appeal of the trial

court ’s dismiss al of appellees Al lan D. G o ldstein, Outfront Media LLC (Outfront) ,2

and Robert Gary Shapley pursuant to the Texas Citizens ’ P arti cipation Act, T EX

. C IV

. P RAC

. & R EM

. C ODE §§ 2 7.001

– .011 ( “ TCPA ” )

. 1 Appellees Goldste in and
Outfront assert in their amended motion to dismiss t h is appeal that this Court lacks jurisdiction over the appeal because the judgment s at issue are not fin al, given that the dismissed parties we re not severed, o ther parties remain in the litigation , and
the dismissals are not subject to interloc utory app eals

. A ppellant has not filed a
respons e to appellee s ’ amended motion to dismiss the appeal

. Generally, appeals may be taken only from final judg ments. Lehmann v.
Har

– Con Corp. , 39 S.W.3d 191, 195 (T ex. 2001). See also C M H H o m es v. P e r e z , 3 4 0 S. W

. 3d 444 , 44 7 ( T e x
. 2 01 1 ) ( “ U nl e s s a st a tu t e a u t h o r i z e s an i nt e r l o c u t o ry

a pp e a l , a p p e l l a t e c ou r t s g e n e r a ll y o n l y h a v e j u r i s d i c t io n o v er a p p ea l s f r o m f in al j u d g m e nts .”). Section 51.01 4(a)(12) of t he Civil Practi ce and Remedies Code

“ provides for an interlocutory appeal from an order that ‘ denies a [TCPA] motion
to dismiss filed unde r Section 27.003. ’ ” S chlu mberger Ltd. v. Rutherford , 472 S.W.3d 881, 886 (Te x. App.

— Houston [1st Dist.] 2015, no pet.) (emphasis add ed)

. Th ere is no interl oc utory appeal from the gr an ting of a TCPA motion to dismis s. Seekra Realty, LLC v. Garner Paving & Constr., Ltd. , No. 14

- 18

- 00984

- CV, 2019 WL 613530, at *1 (Tex. App.

— Houston [14th Dist.] Feb. 14, 2019, no pet.) (mem.

1 The motion s t o dismiss were si gned in the trial court on Se p t ember 26, 2019 (Goldstein), Septem ber 27, 2 019 (Outfront Media) , and September 30, 2019 ( Shapley).3

op.) ( “ No sta tutory authority exists

. . . for an interlocutory appeal from
the grant of a motion to dismiss under th e TCPA. ” ) (emphasis in original ).
Without a severance of the claims against Goldstein, Outfront , and Shapley,
claims remain pending in the trial court, and the trial court has not issued a final judgment. In the a bsen ce of a f i n al j u d g m e nt or appealab le i nterlocutory order , t h is C o u r t must d i s m

is s t h i s a p p eal f o r w a n t o f j u r i s d i c ti on
. S ee T EX

. R. A P P

. P.
42

. 3 (a) ; Fleming & Associates, L.L.P. v. Kirklin , 479 S.W.3d 458, 461 (Tex. App.

— Houston [14th Dist.] 2015, pet. denied)

. Accordingly, we grant appell ee s ’ motion and dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction

. We dismiss all other pending motions as moot.
PER CU RIAM P anel consists of Justices Keyes, Llo yd , and Kelly

.