Court Opinion

ID: 4708273
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Date Created: 2021-08-02 07:20:57.665141+00
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Order filed July 29, 2021.

                                      In The

                       Fourteenth Court of Appeals
                                   ____________

                              NO. 14-21-00062-CV
                                   ____________

                   IN RE CHRISTOPHER DUPUY, Relator

                        ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
                          WRIT OF MANDAMUS
                   On Appeal from the 333rd District Court
                            Harris County, Texas
                      Trial Court Cause No. 2019-89958

                                     ORDER

      On April 3, 2021, relator Christopher Dupuy filed a first amended petition for
writ of mandamus, asking this court to compel the Honorable Brittanye Morris to set
aside her January 12, 2021 order, which denies relator’s Rule 91a motion to dismiss.
See Tex. R. Civ. P. 91a.

      Relator’s petition does not comply with the Texas Rules of Appellate
Procedure. See Tex. R. App. P. 52.3(k)(1)(A), 52.7(a)(1). To be a “certified or
sworn copy,” in accordance with Rule 52, the document must be certified by the trial
court clerk or attached to either a properly prepared affidavit or an unsworn
declaration pursuant to section 132.001 of the Texas Civil Practices and Remedies
Code. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 132.001.1

       By this order, the court gives relator ten days’ notice that the first amended
petition will be dismissed for failure to comply with Rules 52.3(k(1)(1) and
52.7(a)(1) unless the deficiencies are cured. See generally Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(c).

                                                 PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Justices Bourliot, Zimmerer, and Spain.

1
 The legislature has provided an alternate method of meeting the requirement of sworn copies—
an unsworn declaration. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 132.001. An unsworn declaration
must be in writing and subscribed by the person making the declaration as true under penalty of
perjury. Id. § 132.001(c). Section 132.001(d) sets forth the jurat relator may use in an unsworn
declaration:
       My name is, _______________________________________________________________________________________
                                    (First)             (Middle)                   (Last)
       my date of birth is _______________________, and my address is
       __________________________________________________________________________________________________
                              (Street)                 (City)         (State)           (Zip Code)
       and ___________________________________________ I declare under penalty of
                                   (Country)
       Perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
       Executed in _____________ County, State of _____________________________________________________________
       on the ______ day of _________________________________,_______________________________________________
                                                    (Month)                               (Year)
                                                                              ___________________________________
                                                                                             (Declarant)
Id. 132.001(d).