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14-14-01006-CV
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COURT OF AM
APPEALS
Chris Daniel - District ClerkHOUSTON,
Harris County
TEXAS
Envelope No. 3528648
12/29/2014 4:28:05 PM
By: Phyllis WashingtonPRINE
CHRISTOPHER
Filed: 12/18/2014 9:35:49 AM CLERK
CAUSE NO. 2014-17076
KARA NGUYEN § IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
FILED IN
§ 14th COURT OF APPEALS
Plaintiff, § HOUSTON, TEXAS
§ 12/29/2014 4:28:05 PM
V. § HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS
CHRISTOPHER A. PRINE
§ Clerk
ZIAD AMR, M.D.; ANNA BELCHEVA, §
M.D.; JORGE LEIVA, M.D.; ANDRE §
ARASH LIGHVANI, M.D.; AND THE §
METHODIST HOSPITAL §
§
Defendants. § 234TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
NOTICE OF APPEAL
Pursuant to Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 25.1, Defendant Houston Methodist
Hospital f/k/a The Methodist Hospital hereby files this notice of appeal and gives notice of its
intent to appeal. Defendant desires to appeal the district court’s Order signed December 15,
2014, together with all written orders, rulings, and rulings by operation of law. This is an
accelerated appeal; it is not a parental termination or child protection case. This accelerated
appeal is taken from the 234th Judicial District Court of Harris County, Texas, the Honorable
Wesley R. Ward presiding, and taken to the First or Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston,
Texas.
As required by the Local Rules for the First and Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston,
Texas, I certify that no related case on appeal or original proceeding has been previously filed in
either the First and Fourteenth Court of Appeals.
Respectfully submitted,
SCOTT PATTON PC
By: /s/Dwight W. Scott
DWIGHT W. SCOTT, JR.
Texas Bar No. 24027968
dscott@scottpattonlaw.com
CAROLYN CAPOCCIA SMITH
Texas Bar No. 24037511
csmith@scottpattonlaw.com
3939 Washington Avenue, Suite 203
Houston, Texas 77007
Telephone: (281) 377-3266
Facsimile: (281) 377-3267
ATTORNEYS FOR DEFENDANT,
HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL
F/K/A THE METHODIST HOSPITAL
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that a true and correct copy of the foregoing document has been served
on all counsel of record via the court’s electronic filing system, on this the 18th day of December
2014.
Gregory Q. Fibich
FIBICH HAMPTON
1150 Bissonnet Street
Houston, Texas 77005
Attorney for Plaintiff
Frank N. Luccia
Joseph I. Balat
LUCCIA & EVANS, LLP
8 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1450
Houston, Texas 77046
Attorneys for Defendant Anna Belcheva, MD
Joel Randal Sprott
Diana M. Cavazos
SPROTT RIGBY NEWSOM LUNCEFORD
2211 Norfolk, Suite 1150
Houston, Texas 77098
Attorneys for Defendant Andre Lighvani, MD
John P. Scott
SHEPHERD, SCOTT, CLAWATER & HOUSTON, LLP
2777 Allen Parkway, 7th Floor
Houston, Texas 77019
Attorneys for Defendants Ziad Amr, MD and Jorge Leiva, MD
/s/ Dwight Scott
DWIGHT W. SCOTT, JR.
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Houston Methodist Hospital F/K/A the Methodist Hospital v. Kara Nguyen
Combined Opinion