Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-07-09 08:09:17.422357+00
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Motion to Dismiss Denied; Reversed and Remanded, and Memorandum
Majority, and Dissenting and Concurring Memorandum Opinions filed July
6, 2023.

                                      In The

                     Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                               NO. 14-22-00499-CV

                  PEARLAND URBAN AIR, LLC, Appellant

                                         V.

                  ROCKWOOD ALLIANCES, INC., Appellee

                    On Appeal from the 151st District Court
                            Harris County, Texas
                      Trial Court Cause No. 2021-39466

      DISSENTING AND CONCURRING MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Urban Air has asked this court to grant it leave to file an amended notice of
appeal to cure if we conclude there is a defect. See Tex. R. App. P. 25.1(g) (vesting
this Court with the power to grant leave to amend notice of appeal). I would grant
Urban Air’s requested relief and dismiss Rockwood’s motion to dismiss as moot.
       I concur with the court’s judgment except for the portion that purports to
remand the case to the trial court. There was a time when appellate courts rarely
considered appeals that were not from final judgments. Whether those were better
days I will leave for others to decide. But back then, appellate courts understood
that in an interlocutory appeal only the appealable order is before the appellate
court, not the entire underlying proceeding. 1 The underlying proceeding is still in
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the trial court; we have nothing to remand, and I dissent to that portion of the
judgment. 2, 3
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                                                 /s/            Charles A. Spain
                                                                Justice

Panel consists of Chief Justice Christopher and Justices Jewell and Spain.

       1
           Because there is no final judgment.
       2
        “A correct draft of a judgment to be included in an opinion which has been written with
care should be the final challenge to the writing judge.” Robert W. Calvert, Appellate Court
Judgments or Strange Things Happen on the Way to Judgment, Tex. Tech. L. Rev. 915, 925
(1975).
       3
          Because this is an interlocutory appeal of the trial-court's order denying appellant’s
motion to compel arbitration, only that order is before this court—not the entire trial-court case.
Thus, we should not remand the case to the trial court because the case is not before us. See
Chappell Hill Sausage Co. v. Durrenberger, No. 14-19-00897-CV, 2021 WL 2656585, at *5 n.6
(Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] June 29, 2021, no pet.) (mem. op.); see also Motor Coach
Indus., Inc. v. Del Refugio as Next Friend of Nanez, No. 14-20-00825-CV, 2022 WL 3725144, at
*8 n.8 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] Aug. 30, 2022, pet. filed) (mem. op.).

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