Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-03-20 07:17:21.907239+00
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DENIED and Opinion Filed March 15, 2024

                                        In The
                             Court of Appeals
                      Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                No. 05-24-00298-CV

                       IN RE MICHAEL A. RUFF, Relator

               Original Proceeding from the Probate Court No. 2
                             Dallas County, Texas
                     Trial Court Cause No. PR-11-02825-2

                         MEMORANDUM OPINION
                Before Justices Partida-Kipness, Nowell, and Miskel
                        Opinion by Justice Partida-Kipness
      Before the Court is relator’s March 12, 2024 petition for writ of habeas corpus

or, alternatively, writ of mandamus and emergency motion for temporary relief. In

his petition, relator challenges a trial court’s writ of attachment commanding that

relator be taken into custody and delivered to jail for his failure to appear at a show-

cause hearing and to ensure his appearance at the next hearing. In his emergency

motion, relator seeks a stay of the writ of attachment and all proceedings related to

his contempt or incarceration pending this Court’s action on his petition.

      After reviewing relator’s petition and the record before us, whether properly

construed as a writ of habeas corpus or a writ of mandamus, we conclude that relator
has failed to demonstrate entitlement to relief. Accordingly, we deny the petition.

See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.8(a).

      We also deny as moot relator’s emergency motion.

                                          /Robbie Partida-Kipness//
240298f.p05                               ROBBIE PARTIDA-KIPNESS
                                          JUSTICE

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