Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-09-09 19:42:07.04668+00
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COURT OF APPEALS
                                  EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
                                       EL PASO, TEXAS

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                                                                   No. 08-07-00315-CV
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 IN THE INTEREST OF B.L.R.,                                           Appeal from the
 A CHILD                                          §
                                                               388th Judicial District Court
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                                                                of El Paso County, Texas
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                                                                   (TC# 2001CM4794)
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                                  MEMORANDUM OPINION

       This appeal is before the Court on its own motion for determination whether this appeal

should be dismissed for want of prosecution. Finding that Appellant has not filed a brief or a

motion for extension of time, we dismiss the appeal.

       Following this Court’s order granting Appellant’s second motion for extension of time to

file a brief, Appellant’s brief was due to be filed on June 13, 2008. Despite the extensions,

Appellant has failed to file a brief. On June 23, 2008, the clerk of this Court notified the parties

of the Court’s intent to dismiss for want of prosecution if, within ten days of the notice, no party

responded showing grounds to continue the appeal. We have not received a response.

       This Court possesses the authority to dismiss an appeal for want of prosecution when

Appellant has failed to file her brief in the time proscribed, and gives no reasonable explanation

for such failure. TEX .R.APP .P. 38.8(a)(1); Elizondo v. City of San Antonio, 975 S.W.2d 61, 63

(Tex.App.--San Antonio 1998, no writ.). We have given notice of our intent to do so, requested

a response if a reasonable basis for failure to file the brief or statement of facts exists, and have
received none. We see no purpose that would be served by declining to dismiss this appeal at

this stage in the proceedings. Therefore, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution pursuant

to TEX .R.APP .P. 38.8(a)(1) and 42.3(c).

September 11, 2008
                                            DAVID WELLINGTON CHEW, Chief Justice

Before Chew, C.J., McClure, and Carr, JJ.

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