Opinion
02-24-00248-CV
12-18-2024
Granbury SNF LLC d/B/A Granbury Rehab &Nursing, Advanced HCS LLC d/B/A Advanced Healthcare Solutions, and Granbury Rehab &Nursing GS LLC, Appellants v. Natalie Jackson, Appellee
On Appeal from the 355th District Court Hood County, Texas Trial Court No. C2021152.
ORDER
PER CURIAM
This case was submitted with oral argument on the morning of December 17, 2024. Appellee's counsel attended and participated in oral argument; Appellants' counsel did not. In the afternoon of December 17, 2024, Appellants' counsel filed a letter with our court, apologizing for his failure to appear at oral argument. Appellants' counsel represented that his failure to appear "was an oversight" and that it was "wholly unintentional and not the result of any indifference to the Court's notice setting the argument." In his letter, Appellants' counsel requested that the case be resubmitted with oral argument. That request is DENIED.
However, in light of Appellants' counsel's explanation that he did not intentionally fail to attend oral argument, we grant Appellants the opportunity to file a letter brief of no more than six pages, on or before December 30, 2024. The contents of Appellants' letter brief must be limited solely to responses to Appellee's oral argument and must not raise any new matters. See Second Court of Appeals, Practice Before the Court. Oral Arguments Audio. 2024 (last visited December 18, 2024), https://www.txcourts.gov/2ndcoa/practice-before-the-court/oral-arguments/2024. Appellee may file a responsive letter brief of no more than six pages, no later than ten days after Appellants' letter brief, if any, is filed.
We direct the clerk of this court to send a notice of this order to the attorneys of record.