# M. M. and L. E. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services

> Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin) · July 15, 2016

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4017310

## Case

- **Court:** Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
- **Decided:** July 15, 2016
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that case becomes moot if controversy ceases to exists between parties “at any stage of the legal proceedings”

## Opinion text

TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

NO. 03-16-00244-CV

M. M. and L. E., Appellants

v.

Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Appellee

FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF COMAL COUNTY, 274TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
NO. 2014-1337C, HONORABLE JACK H. ROBISON, JUDGE PRESIDING

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Appellant M.M. has filed an unopposed motion to dismiss this appeal, explaining

that the trial court has now vacated the final judgment that is the subject of this appeal and that,

as a result, this appeal has become moot.1 See In re Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc., 166 S.W.3d 732,

737 (Tex. 2005) (noting that case becomes moot if controversy ceases to exists between parties “at

any stage of the legal proceedings”). Based on our review of the record, we conclude that the appeal

has become moot. We grant the motion and dismiss the appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a).

1
Co-appellant L.E., who is represented by different counsel, seeks to appeal from the same
final judgment. L.E. has not responded to M.M.’s motion to dismiss or to our request to explain why
this Court has jurisdiction to consider her appeal.
__________________________________________

Scott K. Field, Justice

Before Justices Puryear, Pemberton, and Field

Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction

Filed: July 15, 2016

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