Opinion
No. 05-15-01526-CV
01-27-2016
JOHNNY SPENCER, Appellant v. DALLAS CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT, Appellee
On Appeal from the 68th Judicial District Court Dallas County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. DC-15-15315
ORDER
Before the Court is appellant's January 25, 2016 pro se Motion to Reconsider, Objections, and/or Retaliation. In this motion, appellant asks this Court to reconsider its January 12, 2016 order denying his Motion for Permission to Stay Proceedings in this Court. We DENY appellant's motion.
It appears appellant filed his petition with the trial court on December 22, 2015 and that the trial court has not entered any order in this case. This Court has jurisdiction only over final judgments and certain interlocutory orders as permitted by statute. See Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195 (Tex. 2001). A final judgment is one that disposes of all pending parties and claims. See id.
Accordingly, on the Court's own motion, we instruct appellant to file, by FEBRUARY 12, 2016, a letter brief of no more than three pages, explaining how this Court has jurisdiction over this appeal. If appellant will be relying on information not in the record before this Court, he must obtain a supplemental clerk's record from the trial court containing that information. After the Court has received a brief regarding the jurisdictional issue, the Court will either (1) dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction or (2) notify appellant by letter that the Court appears to have jurisdiction and set any new deadlines. We caution appellant that failure to provide a jurisdictional brief by FEBRUARY 12, 2016, may result in dismissal of the appeal without further notice.
We DIRECT the Clerk of this Court to send a copy of this order to appellant by first-class mail.
/s/ ELIZABETH LANG-MIERS
JUSTICE