Order entered July 23, 2021
In The
Court of Appeals
Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
No. 05-21-00230-CV
IN RE NOE D. FLORES, Relator
Original Proceeding from the 199th Judicial District Court
Collin County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. 429-00005-2019
ORDER
Before Justices Osborne, Pedersen, III, and Goldstein1
Before the Court is relator’s April 9, 2021 petition for writ of mandamus.
We request that real party in interest and respondent file a response, if any, that
addresses the specific issue of relator’s complaints regarding the trial court’s
failure to issue temporary orders for more than 120 days after a hearing, which left
the children in the possession of the maternal grandmother over that same period
without the required statutory findings of “serious, immediate harm” and
1
J., Goldstein, would not request a response but would deny the petition for writ of mandamus
without prejudice to refiling because the docket sheet entries relied upon by relator are inherently
unreliable notations of the trial court’s rulings upon which to grant mandamus relief. See In re
Latimer, No. 05-14-01099-CV, 2014 WL 4288886, at *1 (Tex. App.—Dallas Aug. 29, 2014,
orig. proceeding).
“significant impairment.” The response shall be filed within TWENTY DAYS of
this order.
Also before the Court is relator’s July 12, 2021 motion to give precedence to
the petition for writ of mandamus. We GRANT the motion.
/s/ LESLIE OSBORNE
JUSTICE