Court Opinion

ID: 9369930
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-02-10 08:20:31.016379+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:16:18.160612
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals

                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                                NO. 09-23-00001-CV
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                          IN THE INTEREST OF B.C.C.

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                On Appeal from the 317th District Court
                       Jefferson County, Texas
                     Trial Cause No. C-224,292-E
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      D.C. filed a notice of appeal from an order denying a motion to abate. We

questioned whether the trial court had signed a final judgment or an order that is

appealable as an accelerated appeal.1 D.C. and the Office of the Attorney General

filed a response to our request, and both agree the trial court’s order is an

interlocutory order that is not appealable as an accelerated appeal. D.C. requests that

we retain this matter as an original proceeding for a writ of mandamus, but he has

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         To protect the privacy of the parties, we refer to the child and the parties by
their initials only. See Tex. Fam. Code Ann. § 109.002(d).
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not filed a brief that we could consider as a mandamus petition. Under these

circumstances, judicial efficiency will be served by dismissing the attempted appeal

without reference to the merits and without prejudice to D.C.’s right to seek

mandamus relief by filing a Petition for Writ of Mandamus. Accordingly, we dismiss

the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a); 43.2(f).

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                                            PER CURIAM

Submitted on February 8, 2023
Opinion Delivered February 9, 2023

Before Golemon, C.J., Johnson and Wright, JJ.

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