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ACCEPTED
                                                                                  03-15-00363-CV
                                                                                          5895067
                                                                       THIRD COURT OF APPEALS
                                                                                  AUSTIN, TEXAS
                                                                             7/1/2015 10:40:31 AM
                                                                                JEFFREY D. KYLE
                                                                                           CLERK
                             CASE NO. 03-15-00363-CV

                                                          FILED IN
                                                   3rd COURT OF APPEALS
                        IN THE COURT OF APPEALS        AUSTIN, TEXAS
       FOR THE      THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT AT AUSTIN,  TEXAS
                                                   7/1/2015 10:40:31 AM
                                                     JEFFREY D. KYLE
                                                           Clerk
     TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES,

                                       Appellant,

                                            v.

            BRILLIANT STARTS LEARNING ACADEMY, L.L.C.

                                        Appellee.

       On Appeal from the 207TH District Court, Comal County, Texas;
        Cause No. C2015-0676B; before the Honorable Dib Waldrup

        APPELLANT’S UNOPPOSED MOTION TO EXTEND TIME
                        TO FILE BRIEF

KEN PAXTON                            Pat Tulinski
Attorney General of Texas             State Bar No. 20283485
                                      Assistant Attorney General
CHARLES E. ROY                        TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE
First Assistant Attorney General       P.O. Box 12548, Capitol Station
                                      Austin, Texas 78711-2548
JAMES E. DAVIS                        Telephone: (512) 475-4170
Deputy Attorney General for           Facsimile: (512) 320-0167
Civil Litigation                      pat.tulinski@texasattorneygeneral.gov
                                      Attorneys for Appellant
DAVID A. TALBOT, JR.
Chief, Administrative Law Division

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Cause No. 03-15-00363-CV
Appellant’s Unopposed Motion to Extend Time to File Brief
 TO THE HONORABLE JUSTICES OF THE THIRD COURT OF
 APPEALS:

       Now comes Appellant Texas Department of Family & Protective Services,

 asking the Court to extend the time to file its brief in Cause Number 03-15-

 00363-CV; Trial Court Cause Number C2015-0676B.

       Appellant is the Texas Department of Family & Protective Services.

Appellee is Brilliant Starts Learning Academy, L.L.C. There is no specific

deadline to file this motion to extend. See Tex. R. App. P. 38.6(d). Appellant

has conferred with counsel for Appellee, and this request for extension is

unopposed.

       The Court has the authority under Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure

 38.6(d) to extend the time to file a brief. The Department’s brief is presently

 due on July 2, 2015. The Department requests an additional twenty (20) days to

 file its brief. If granted, the new due date will be July 22, 2015.

       This extension is necessary because counsel for the Department had a

 death in her family and was out of the office. Counsel for the Department was

 the sole attorney present and participating at the multi-day hearing on the

 Temporary Injunction, and she is familiar with the facts and law involved in

 this case. There was no other attorney prepared to handle this matter for the

 Department. Further, the legal and factual issues are moderately complex and

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Cause No. 03-15-00363-CV
Appellant’s Unopposed Motion to Extend Time to File Brief
 require sufficient time to address them properly.

       This is the Department’s first motion to extend the deadline. No prior

 extensions have been granted. This request is not sought for purposes of delay

 but to see that justice is done.

       For these reasons, Appellant respectfully requests that this Court grant this

 20 day extension of time to file its brief, to be due on July 22, 2015.

       SIGNED this 30th day of June, 2015.

                                          Respectfully submitted,

                                          KEN PAXTON
                                          Attorney General of Texas

                                          CHARLES E. ROY
                                          First Assistant Attorney General

                                          JAMES E. DAVIS
                                          Deputy Attorney General for Civil
                                          Litigation

                                          DAVID A. TALBOT, JR.
                                          Chief, Administrative Law Division

                                          /s/ Pat Tulinski
                                          Pat Tulinski
                                          TBN 20283485
                                          Assistant Texas Attorney General
                                          Administrative Law Division
                                          P.O. Box 12548, Capitol Station
                                          Austin, Texas 78711-2548
                                          Telephone: (512) 475-4170

                                                                              Page 3 of 4
Cause No. 03-15-00363-CV
Appellant’s Unopposed Motion to Extend Time to File Brief
                                          Facsimile: (512) 320-0167
                                          pat.tulinski@texasattorneygeneral.gov

                        CERTIFICATE OF CONFERENCE

      Pursuant to TRAP 10.1(a)(5), counsel for Appellant conferred with counsel
 for Appellee and obtained consent to file this motion unopposed.

                                          /s/ Pat Tulinski
                                          Pat Tulinski

                           CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

      I certify that a true and correct copy of the Appellant’s Unopposed Motion to
Extend Time to File Brief was transmitted by electronic filing on the 30th day of
June, 2015 to the party of record as listed below:

Brilliant Starts Learning                 Gregory B. Cagle
Academy, L.L.C.                           Regional Attorney
Appellee                                  Texas Municipal Police Association
                                          1602B State St.
                                          Houston, TX 77007
                                          Telephone: (713) 489-4789
                                          Facsimile: (713) 489-4792
                                          gcagle@tmpalawyer.com

                                          /s/ Pat Tulinski
                                          Pat Tulinski

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Cause No. 03-15-00363-CV
Appellant’s Unopposed Motion to Extend Time to File Brief