Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-06-21 06:09:49.232591+00
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DISMISS and Opinion Filed June 16, 2023

                                  S  In The
                            Court of Appeals
                     Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                              No. 05-23-00280-CV

 CENTURION LOGISTICS LLC, DIRECTLY AND DERIVATIVELY ON
    BEHALF OF CENTURION PECOS TERMINAL LLC, Appellant
                            V.
 JULES S. BRENNER, CLARK HILL PLC ALSO DOING BUSINESS AS
 CLARK HILL STRASBURGER, AND STRASBURGER & PRICE, LLP,
                         Appellees

               On Appeal from the 44th Judicial District Court
                           Dallas County, Texas
                    Trial Court Cause No. DC-19-15964

                        MEMORANDUM OPINION
                Before Justices Pedersen, III, Garcia, and Kennedy
                            Opinion by Justice Garcia
      Appellant appeals from the trial court’s order awarding attorney’s fees for

the dismissal of some but not all of appellees’ claims under the Texas Citizens’

Participation Act (TCPA). See TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 27.009

(where trial court orders dismissal under the TCPA of some or all claims, it shall

award the moving party attorney’s fees). A party may bring an interlocutory

appeal only from the denial of a TCPA motion to dismiss. See id. § 51.014(a)(12).

Because the appealed order awards fees in relation to an order partially granting a
TCPA motion to dismiss and did not otherwise finally dispose of the underlying

case, appellees have filed motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction. See id.

        Appellant filed a response agreeing the appeal should be dismissed.1

Because the appealed interlocutory order is not subject to appeal, we grant

appellees’ motion and dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction. See TEX. R.

APP. P. 42.3(a).

                                                          /Dennise Garcia/
                                                          DENNISE GARCIA
                                                          JUSTICE
230280F.P05

    1
      Appellant states in its response that the trial court signed a final judgment on May 9, 2023 and it has
filed a separate notice of appeal from that judgment.

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                                 S
                          Court of Appeals
                   Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                 JUDGMENT

CENTURION LOGISTICS LLC,                  On Appeal from the 44th Judicial
DIRECTLY AND DERIVATIVELY                 District Court, Dallas County, Texas
ON BEHALF OF CENTURION                    Trial Court Cause No. DC-19-15964.
PECOS TERMINAL LLC, Appellant             Opinion delivered by Justice Garcia.
                                          Justices Pedersen, III and Kennedy
No. 05-23-00280-CV       V.               participating.

JULES S. BRENNER, CLARK HILL
PLC ALSO DOING BUSINESS AS
CLARK HILL STRASBURGER,
AND STRASBURGER & PRICE,
LLP, Appellees

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

    It is ORDERED that appellees JULES S. BRENNER, CLARK HILL PLC
ALSO DOING BUSINESS AS CLARK HILL STRASBURGER, AND
STRASBURGER & PRICE, LLP recover their costs of this appeal from appellant
CENTURION LOGISTICS LLC, DIRECTLY AND DERIVATIVELY ON
BEHALF OF CENTURION PECOS TERMINAL LLC.

Judgment entered June 16, 2023

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