Opinion
05-21-00076-CV
08-30-2021
VENKY VENKATRAMAN, Appellant v. STEPHEN D. SKINNER, ET AL., Appellees
On Appeal from the 256th Judicial District Court Dallas County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. DF-04-11968-V
ORDER
ROBERT D. BURNS, III CHIEF JUSTICE
Before the Court is appellant's August 26, 2021 second motion to abate appeal due to incorrect and incomplete court reporter's records. On July 21, 2021, we granted appellant's first motion to the extent that we ordered the court reporter to file a corrected reporter's record which she did on August 13, 2021. In his current motion, appellant asserts the corrected reporter's record again incorrectly lists attorneys Ms. Rowan and Ms. Johnson in the Index on page 3 as participating in the trial. Ms. Rowan and Ms. Johnson, however, are not listed under "Appearances" and a search of their names shows them only listed in the Index. Accordingly, the continued inclusion of their names in the Index appears to be error. Additionally, appellant correctly asserts that Exhibit 22 is not included in the reporter's record.
We GRANT the motion as follows. We STRIKE the reporter's records of the trial conducted on December 1, 2020 that were filed in this Court on July 6, 2021 and August 13, 2021. We ORDER Glenda Finkley, Official Court Reporter for the 256th Judicial District Court, to file, by September 10, 2021, a corrected reporter's record of the trial conducted on December 1, 2020 that (1) omits the names Ms. Rowan and Ms. Johnson from the Index and (2) contains Exhibit 22 (Court of Appeals Opinion on Rehearing dated August 30, 2017) which was attached to Chris Harding's (appellant's trial counsel) December 31, 2021 email to Ms. Finkley.
Appellant's brief on the merits will be due within thirty days after the corrected reporter's record is filed.
We DIRECT the Clerk of this Court to send a copy of this order to Ms. Finkley and all parties.