Ha Penny Nguyen v. Jefferson County, Texas

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: October 20, 2022
• Docket: 09-22-00247-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

In The

Court of Appeals

Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

__________________

NO. 09-22-00247-CV __________________

HA PENNY NGUYEN, Appellant

V.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, TEXAS, Appellee

__________________________________________________________________

On Appeal from the 172nd District Court Jefferson County, Texas Trial Cause No. D-208,390 __________________________________________________________________

MEMORANDUM OPINION

In a final order, the trial court granted a plea to the jurisdiction filed by

Jefferson County, Texas. Ha Penny Nguyen, Appellant, filed a notice of appeal. On

August 2, 2022, we sent Appellant a certified bill of costs for the filing fee for the

appeal. On September 2, 2022, through a notice issued by the Clerk of the Court, we

warned the parties that Appellant had not remitted the filing fee and that unless she

paid the fee, the Court would dismiss the appeal without further notice on any date

after October 3, 2022. Appellant neither paid the filing fee nor asserted that she was

1 unable to afford payment of costs. See Tex. R. App. P. 5, 20.1. None of the parties

responded to the Clerk’s notices.

In the absence of a satisfactory explanation justifying the appellant’s failure

to pay the filing fee for the appeal, we dismiss the appeal for want of prosecution.

See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3, 43.2(f).

APPEAL DISMISSED.

PER CURIAM

Submitted on October 19, 2022 Opinion Delivered October 20, 2022

Before Kreger, Horton and Johnson, JJ.