TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN NO. 03-05-00539-CV Board of Regents of the Texas State University System, Alan Dreeben, Kent Adams, Don Flores, Jimmy Hayley, Dora Alcala, John Dudley, Bernie Francis, Pollyanna Stephens, and Chancellor Charles Matthews, Appellants v. Lamar Urbanovsky, Appellee FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, 353RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT NO. GN502558, HONORABLE SUZANNE COVINGTON, JUDGE PRESIDING MEMORANDUM OPINION Appellants have asked this Court to abate the appeal for forty-five days while the parties attempt to finalize a settlement agreement. We will grant the request and will abate the appeal until January 12, 2006. If by that time the parties have not finalized their settlement agreement and filed a motion to dismiss with this Court, the parties are asked to file a report informing this Court of the status of the negotiations and the appeal. __________________________________________ David Puryear, Justice Before Chief Justice Law, Justices B. A. Smith and Puryear Filed: December 2, 2005