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Date Created: 2023-06-06 13:09:56.470217+00
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Fourth Court of Appeals
                                     San Antonio, Texas
                                 MEMORANDUM OPINION
                                        No. 04-22-00703-CV

                                      Terrick L. ALSBROOKS,
                                              Appellant

                                                  v.

                  CHERISH REALTY SOLUTIONS LLC, Tina Lashaun Skinner,
                              and Fidelity Marketing LLC,
                                       Appellees

                      From the County Court at Law No. 3, Bexar County, Texas
                                  Trial Court No. 2022CV02415
                           Honorable David J. Rodriguez, Judge Presiding

PER CURIAM

Sitting:          Rebeca C. Martinez, Chief Justice
                  Patricia O. Alvarez, Justice
                  Luz Elena D. Chapa, Justice

Delivered and Filed: May 31, 2023

DISMISSED FOR LACK OF JURISDICTION

           Appellant, Terrick L. Alsbrooks, seeks to appeal from the trial court’s October 20, 2022

order dismissing appellant’s claims asserted under the Real Estate Settlement Procedure Act

(hereinafter “the dismissal order”). On January 30, 2023, the trial court clerk filed the clerk’s

record. After reviewing this record, we could not determine whether the dismissal order is a final,

appealable order. Specifically, the dismissal order does not unequivocally state that it finally

disposes of all claims and parties. Moreover, the dismissal order makes no mention of either
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appellant’s breach of contract claim or the counterclaim pleaded by Cherish Realty Solutions LLC,

one of the appellees.

        In light of these concerns, we abated this appeal and ordered the trial court to clarify

whether it intended to render a final judgment and, if so, to sign a judgment that is final for purposes

of appeal. We further ordered the trial court to cause a supplemental clerk’s record containing any

pleadings, orders, and judgment relating to our order to be filed in this court.

        The supplemental clerk’s record that was filed on March 23, 2023, lacks the clarification

that we sought. Because it appeared that the trial court may not have rendered a final judgment or

an appealable interlocutory order, we ordered appellant to show cause in writing on or before April

24, 2023, why this appeal should not be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. See TEX. R. APP. P.

42.3(a), 43.2(f); see also Lehmann v. Har-Con Corporation, 39 S.W.3d 191, 192-93 (Tex. 2001)

(defining a judgment as final and appealable “if and only if either it actually disposes of all claims

and parties then before the court, regardless of its language, or it states with unmistakable clarity

that it is a final judgment as to all claims and all parties.”). Appellant has not responded to our

show cause order.

        Because the record does not include an appealable interlocutory order or final judgment,

this court has no jurisdiction over the appeal, and we must dismiss it. See TEX. R. APP. P.2.3(a);

Lehmann, 39 S.W.3d at 195.

                                                    PER CURIAM

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