Anthony Nguyen, O.D. v. Texas Optometry Board

Texas Court of Appeals, 15th District · March 12, 2025 · No. 15-24-00096-CV

Summary

This document comprises a compilation of procedural filings in the appeal of Anthony Nguyen, O.D. v. Texas Optometry Board before the Fifteenth Court of Appeals in Texas. It includes notices and an agreed request by the parties asking the Travis County District Court to issue an order directing its clerk to submit the certified administrative record to the appellate court. The attached district court order grants the request, directing the clerk to transmit the record to the appeals court.

Court
Texas Court of Appeals, 15th District
Writing for the Court
Maya Guerra Gamble
Jurisdiction
Texas
Decision date
March 12, 2025
Docket number
15-24-00096-CV
Procedural posture
Request for order to compel clerk to submit administrative record to appellate court
Precedential value
non-precedential
Parties
Anthony Nguyen, O.D. v. Texas Optometry Board
Disposition
approved

Topics

appellate procedureadministrative lawadministrative procedure actcivil procedure

Practice areas

administrative lawappellate procedurecivil procedure

Questions Presented

  1. Whether the appellate court may issue an order requiring the clerk to submit the administrative record to the 15th Court of Appeals.

Holdings

  1. The court grants the request and orders the clerk to submit the administrative record to the 15th Court of Appeals no later than March __, 2025.

Key quotations

Having considered the Parties’ Request for a Court Order Requiring the Clerk to Submit the Administrative Record to the 15th Court of Appeals, this Court hereby GRANTS the same. IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that no later than March __, 2025, the Clerk shall submit the Administrative Record as further described in Defendant’s Notice of Filing of Administrative Record, filed with this Court on May 22, 2024, to the 15th Court of Appeals. (order)

Factual background

The Texas Optometry Board filed an administrative record with the district court clerk. The appellate court clerk was instructed that the record could not be forwarded to the appellate court without a formal order. The parties jointly requested that the appellate court issue such an order.

Procedural history

The case arose from a final judgment entered by the 455th Judicial District Court, Travis County on July 31, 2025. Nguyen appealed and filed a request for the clerk to prepare the administrative record. The clerk refused to submit the record without a court order, prompting the parties to seek an order from the 15th Court of Appeals.

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