Court Opinion

ID: 4453796
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2019-11-07 15:15:03.329559+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:53:29.267434
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals

                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

                               __________________

                               NO. 09-19-00291-CV
                               __________________

                     ALEX MELVIN WADE JR., Appellant

                                          V.

ARTHUR SMALLEY AND WOODFOREST NATIONAL BANK, Appellees
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                On Appeal from the 284th District Court
                     Montgomery County, Texas
                   Trial Cause No. 17-05-06174-CV
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Appellant Alex Melvin Wade Jr. has been declared a vexatious litigant and is

prohibited from filing pro se any new litigation in a court of this State without first

obtaining permission from the local administrative judge. See Tex. Civ. Prac. &

Rem. Code Ann. §§ 11.102(a), 11.103(a). Wade filed his notice of appeal pro se

without first obtaining the required permission.

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      A clerk of a court may not file litigation presented, pro se, by a vexatious

litigant who is subject to a prefiling order unless the litigant obtains an order from

the local administrative judge permitting the filing. Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem Code

Ann. § 11.103(a). By letters dated September 17, 2019, September 25, 2019, and

October 7, 2019, we notified the parties that Wade is a vexatious litigant and warned

that the appeal would be dismissed unless we received an order from the local

administrative judge. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 11.102(a). We have

not received notice that the local administrative judge has permitted the filing of

litigation by Wade. Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed.

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                              ______________________________
                                                     CHARLES KREGER
                                                        Chief Justice

Submitted on November 6, 2019
Opinion Delivered November 7, 2019

Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.

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