Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-02-13 07:08:16.560192+00
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COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE
                           FIRST DISTRICT OF TEXAS AT HOUSTON

                                            ORDER

Appellate case name:         Leslie Garza v. Lelia H. Rodgers
Appellate case number:       01-22-00563-CV
Trial court case number:     2020-01673
Trial court:                 157th District Court of Harris County

        Appellant, Leslie Garza, filed a “Motion for Extension of Time to File Appellant’s
Brief.” In her motion, appellant requests a “two[-]month extension until March 30, 2023
to file” her brief.
        An appellant must file her brief within thirty days after the completion of the
appellate record, consisting of the clerk’s record and the reporter’s record. See TEX. R.
APP. P. 38.6(a) (deadline for filing of appellant’s brief is thirty days after completion of
appellate record). Here, the clerk’s record was filed on October 7, 2022. However, the
reporter’s record has not yet been filed. On August 30, 2022, the court reporter filed an
“Information Sheet by Court Reporters” notifying the Court that there is a reporter’s record
in this case, but that appellant, Leslie Garza, had not requested that the reporter’s record be
prepared, nor paid or made arrangements to pay for the preparation of the reporter’s record.
        Also on August 30, 2022, the Clerk of this Court notified appellant that unless
appellant submitted written evidence that a reporter’s record was requested, and that
appellant had paid or made arrangements to pay the fee for the preparation of the reporter’s
record by September 29, 2022, the Court may require appellant to file her brief and consider
the appeal without a reporter’s record. See TEX. R. APP. P. 37.3(c). In her motion for
extension of time to file her brief, appellant states that she has “made arrangements to pay”
for the preparation of the reporter’s record.
       However, as noted above, as of the date of appellant’s motion, no reporter’s record
has been filed. Because the appellate record is not complete, the deadline for the filing of
appellant’s brief is not yet running. See TEX. R. APP. P. 38.6(a). We cannot grant an
extension until a deadline is set.
      Accordingly, appellant’s motion for extension of time to file her appellant’s brief is
denied. Once a deadline has been set, appellant may file a new motion for an extension of
time for filing her brief.
       It is so ORDERED.

Judge’s signature: _____/s/ Amparo Guerra_______
                    Acting individually  Acting for the Court

Date: ____February 7, 2023____

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