Detran Levy, Appellant v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Appellee (2012)

TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

O R D E R

Appellant Detran Levy filed his notice of appeal on February 29, 2012.   The appellate record was complete April 3, 2012, making appellants brief due April 23, 2012.   To date, appellants brief has not been filed.

Recent amendments to the rules of judicial administration accelerate the final disposition of appeals from suits for termination of parental rights.   See Tex.R. Jud. Admin. 6.2(a), available at http:// www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/MiscDocket/12/12903200.pdf (providing 180 days for court's final disposition).   The accelerated schedule requires greater compliance with briefing deadlines.   Therefore we order counsel to file appellants brief no later than May 18, 2012.   If the brief is not filed by that date, counsel may be required to show cause why she should not be held in contempt of court.

It is ordered on May 3, 2012.

Before Chief Justice Jones, Justices Pemberton and Rose.