Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-16 06:09:55.509073+00
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DISMISS and Opinion Filed August 8, 2023

                                   S  In The
                            Court of Appeals
                     Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                               No. 05-23-00447-CV

                         AUTOPEDIA INC., Appellant
                                  V.
                        TWONYA MADLOCK, Appellee

               On Appeal from the 192nd Judicial District Court
                            Dallas County, Texas
                    Trial Court Cause No. DC-22-11969

                         MEMORANDUM OPINION
                 Before Justices Nowell, Goldstein, and Breedlove
                            Opinion by Justice Nowell
      This appeal was filed by Homayoon Samii, appellant’s registered agent and

owner. Because the Texas Supreme Court has stated that only a licensed attorney

may represent a corporation in court, and nothing before us reflected Mr. Samii is a

licensed attorney, we notified appellant by letter that the appeal was subject to

dismissal unless it retained counsel within thirty days. See Kunstoplast of Am., Inc.

v. Formosa Plastics Corp., 937 S.W.2d 455, 456 (Tex. 1996) (per curiam). More

than thirty days have passed, and appellant has not complied. Accordingly, we

dismiss the appeal. See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.3(c); Earth Energy Util. Corp. v.
Environmentally Engineered Equip., Inc.. 05-10-01610-CV, 2012 WL 4845658

(Tex. App.—Dallas Oct. 10, 2012, no pet.) (dismissing appeal for failure of appellant

corporation to notify court it had retained counsel).

                                            /Erin A. Nowell/
                                            ERIN A. NOWELL
                                            JUSTICE

230447F.P05

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                                   S
                          Court of Appeals
                   Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                JUDGMENT

AUTOPEDIA INC., Appellant                  On Appeal from the 192nd Judicial
                                           District Court, Dallas County, Texas
No. 05-23-00447-CV        V.               Trial Court Cause No. DC-22-11969.
                                           Opinion delivered by Justice Nowell,
TWONYA MADLOCK, Appellee                   Justices Goldstein and Breedlove
                                           participating.

     In accordance with this Court’s opinion of this date, we DISMISS the appeal.

      We ORDER that appellee Twonya Madlock recover her costs, if any, of this
appeal from appellant Autopedia Inc.

Judgment entered August 8, 2023.

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