Summary
This document is an emergency motion for a two-week extension of time to file an appellant’s brief in a Texas intermediate appellate court. The motion states that counsel’s deadline was March 4, 2015, identifies the request as the third extension request, and includes certificates of conference and service and supporting email exhibits.
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Questions Presented
- Whether the court should grant appellant's emergency motion for a two-week extension of time to file his appellate brief.
Factual background
Appellant's counsel stated that the appellate brief was due March 4, 2015, and that on the evening of March 3 he was retained to handle an emergency guardianship and life-sustaining-treatment matter. Counsel asserted that the emergency matter would substantially interfere with completing and editing the brief and requested a two-week extension, noting that it was the third extension request.
Procedural history
The appeal arose from cause number D-1-GN-10-003864 in the 200th District Court of Travis County, Texas. The document is an emergency motion seeking to extend the deadline for appellant's brief from March 4, 2015, to March 18, 2015; the text supplied does not state the court's ruling on the motion.