Order entered March 25, 2014
In The
Court of Appeals
Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
No. 05-13-01637-CV
DR. RICHARD MALOUF AND LEANNE MALOUF, Appellant
V.
GRAHAM WOOD AND AOL, INC., Appellee
On Appeal from the County Court at Law No. 3
Dallas County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. CC-12-06268-C
ORDER
The Court has before it the joint motion to set briefing schedule filed by Appellant, Dr.
Richard Malouf, and Appellees, Graham Wood and AOL, Inc., in which the parties request the
Court to establish a combined briefing schedule for the appeal and cross-appeal. The Court
GRANTS the motion. The briefing deadlines and word limits are as follows:
Brief Deadline Word Limit
Malouf's appellant's brief May 9, 2014 15,000 words
Combined appellee's brief for June 13, 2014 19,500 words
Wood and appellant's brief for
AOL
Malouf's combined appellee's July 18, 2014 12,000 words
brief and appellant's reply
brief
AOL's appellant's reply brief August 8, 2014 7,500 words
Having reviewed the clerk’s record, the Court has a question concerning its jurisdiction
over the portion of the appeal filed by Dr. Richard Malouf concerning the trial court’s order,
signed November 5, 2013, in which the trial court dismissed Malouf’s claims against defendant
Graham Wood. The various orders included in the record before the Court do not appear to
dispose of all the claims and parties remaining in the case. Generally, this Court has jurisdiction
only over appeals from final judgments. See Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195
(Tex. 2001). Interlocutory orders may be appealed only if permitted by statute. Jack B. Anglin
Co., Inc. v. Tipps, 842 S.W.2d 266, 272 (Tex. 1992). Although the trial court has included
language in its order of dismissal stating that the order dismissing the claims against Wood is a
final, appealable order, the record before the Court does not include an order severing Malouf’s
claims against Wood from the claims, issues and parties remaining in the case.
Accordingly, Malouf is requested to file, within 10 days of the date of this order, a
jurisdictional letter brief of no more than 5 pages explaining how this Court has jurisdiction over
the portion of the appeal concerning the dismissal of Malouf’s claims against Wood. Wood may
file a responsive letter brief of no more than 5 pages within 10 days of Malouf’s letter brief. If
either party will be relying on information not in the record before this Court that party must
obtain a supplemental clerk’s record from the trial court containing that information.
/s/ ELIZABETH LANG-MIERS
JUSTICE