Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-07-02 08:10:55.963656+00
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Petition for Writ of Mandamus Denied and Memorandum Opinion filed June
29, 2023.

                                      In The

                    Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                                NO. 14-23-00383-CV

                   IN RE CAROLYN R. DAWSON, Relator

                          ORIGINAL PROCEEDING
                            WRIT OF MANDAMUS
                          434th Judicial District Court
                            Fort Bend County, Texas
                     Trial Court Cause No. 20-DCV-279119

                         MEMORANDUM OPINION

      On May 30, 2023, relator Carolyn R. Dawson filed a petition for writ of
mandamus in this court. See Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. § 22.221; see also Tex. R. App.
P. 52. In the petition, relator asks this court to compel the Honorable J. Christian
Becerra, presiding judge of the 434th Judicial District Court of Fort Bend County,
to set aside his March 16, 2023 order denying relator’s motion to dissolve or a
terminate a protective order. 1  0F

       Relator has not shown that she its entitled to mandamus relief. Accordingly,
we deny relator’s petition for writ of mandamus.

                                        PER CURIAM

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

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  Relator’s petition is deficient because relator does not attach a certified or sworn copy of every
document that is material to the relator’s claim for relief and that was filed in any underlying
proceeding. See Tex. R. App. P. 57(a)(1). Relator previously attempted to appeal from the March
16, 2023 order, but we dismissed her appeal for lack of jurisdiction. See Dawson v. Pakenham,
No. 14-23-00190-CV, 2023 WL 3115725, at *1 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] Apr. 27, 2023,
no pet.). However, the clerk’s record was filed in the appeal. An appellate court can take judicial
notice of its own records and judgments rendered in cases involving the same subject matter and
the same or nearly the same parties. Reynolds v. Quantlab Trading Partners US, LP, 608 S.W.3d
549, 557 n.3 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2020, no pet.). We take judicial notice of the
record in the appeal. Therefore, we have a record that satisfies Rule Tex. R. App. P. 52.7(a)(1).
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