Johnny Partain v. State of Texas

Texas Court of Appeals, 15th District · September 30, 2025 · No. 15-25-00005-CV

Summary

This document is an appellant’s motion filed in the Texas Fifteenth Court of Appeals requesting judicial notice of a final judgment from a parallel Hidalgo County district court case. The appellant argues that the lower court’s order dismissing a related inverse condemnation claim as moot establishes that the State of Texas already compensated him, thereby undermining the state’s claims of standing and injury in the current litigation. The motion cites Texas Rules of Evidence 201(c)(2) and requests the appellate court to apply the prior judgment to the instant case.

Court
Texas Court of Appeals, 15th District
Jurisdiction
Texas
Decision date
September 30, 2025
Docket number
15-25-00005-CV
Procedural posture
Appellant's Motion to Take Judicial Notice of Final Judgment Pursuant to TRE 201(c)(2)
Precedential value
nonprecedential
Parties
Johnny Partain v. State of Texas

Topics

appellate procedureevidencestandingmootnessappellate jurisdiction

Practice areas

appellate procedureevidenceconstitutional lawcivil procedure

Questions Presented

  1. Whether the Texas Court of Appeals should take judicial notice of the final order entered by the Hidalgo County 332nd District Court dismissing Partain's earlier case as moot.

Factual background

The Hidalgo County 332nd District Court entered an order dismissing Partain's earlier inverse condemnation case as moot, finding that the State of Texas had fully compensated Partain for all claims. The State accepted that order without appeal. Partain now moves the Texas Court of Appeals to take judicial notice of that final order in the present case.

Procedural history

Partain seeks appellate court's judicial notice of a final order from Hidalgo County 332nd District Court that dismissed his earlier case as moot and found he had been fully compensated by the State.

Court Document

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