Court Opinion

ID: 4654441
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-01-26 10:12:28.465543+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:58:41.085936
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                      NO. 03-20-00531-CV

                                M. D., Jr. and C. A., Appellants

                                                v.

               Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Appellee

                 FROM THE 274TH DISTRICT COURT OF HAYS COUNTY
            NO. 18-0752, THE HONORABLE DAVID JUNKIN, JUDGE PRESIDING

                                           ORDER

PER CURIAM

               Appellant M. D., Jr., filed his notice of appeal on November 5, 2020.          The

appellate record was complete on December 8, 2020, making appellant’s brief due on December

28, 2020. To date, appellant’s brief has not been filed.

               The rules of judicial administration accelerate the final disposition of appeals

from suits for termination of parental rights. See Tex. R. Jud. Admin. 6.2(a) (providing 180 days

for court’s final disposition). The accelerated schedule requires greater compliance with briefing

deadlines. Therefore, we order James B. Peplinski to file appellant’s brief no later than February

5, 2021. If the brief is not filed by that date, counsel may be required to show cause why he

should not be held in contempt of court.

               It is ordered on January 21, 2021.
Before Justices Goodwin, Triana, and Kelly

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