Court Opinion

ID: 9681995
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 08:03:11.677084+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:36.341284
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Appellant has filed a motion for rehearing which contains no specific assignments of error, but requests that this cause be dismissed and that the opinion of this Court be not published.
As a general rule a cause appealed to this Court will not be dismissed after a decision has been rendered and an opinion handed down. Boyd v. Adcock, Tex.Civ.App., 21 S.W.2d 743; Martinez v. Kildey, Tex.Civ.App., 117 S.W.2d 151; International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers, Local No. 393 v. Missouri Pacific Freight Transport Co., Tex.Civ.App., on motion to dismiss, 220 S.W.2d 219 at page 254. Nothing is set forth- in appellant’s motion which *117would warrant a departure from the general rule, and the request for a dismissal of the cause is accordingly denied.
Rule 452, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, relating to opinions of the Courts of-Civil Appeals, provides that: “Opinions of the Courts of Civil Appeals shall he as brief as practicable, and shall avoid as far as possible lengthy quotations from other •decisions or texts; and where the issues ■involved have been clearly settled by authority or elementary principles of law, the court shall write only brief memorandum opinions. In every case where application for writ of error is unqualifiedly refused or is granted, the opinion shall be ordered -published; in other cases opinions shall be ordered not pn.blished when they present no question or application of any rule of law of interest or importance to the jurispmdence of the State.”
The opinions of the Texas Courts of Civil Appeals are no longer published officially. The Southwestern Reporter contains all of these opinions which are authorized by the Court for publication, and Is generally used by the lawyers of Texas. This publication has no official connection with the State of Texas, but is edited, printed and distributed by the West Publishing Company, a -private corporation.
Appellant’s motion is apparently designed to secure a request from this Court-to the West Publishing Company that the •opinion in this casq be not published by them. These requests are uniformly complied with by such publisher and when we ■believe that an opinion falls within the provisions of the rule, we recommend that it be not published. However, the opinions ■of this Court are public records and anyone who desires to do so may make or secure copies thereof. This Court could bardly prohibit subsequent ■ publication thereof by any newspaper, publishing firm ■or individual desiring to disseminate information relating thereto. First Amendment, Constitution of the United States, Article 1, § 8, Constitution of Texas, Vernon’s Ann.St.
Shortly after our opinion in this ■case was handed down, a copy thereof was requested by and delivered to Commerce Clearing House, Inc., publishers of information relating to judicial decisions and governmental actions. It is our custom to make 'any opinion of this Court available to all publishers when a copy thereof is requested by one of them. In view of this established policy, we must decline appellant’s request as to non-publication of the opinion.
Appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.