For the week of September 27, 2010, the Dallas Court of Appeals issued thirty opinions in civil cases. Twenty-nine of these dispose of a case without a detailed discussion of the merits (e.g., dismissing a case for want of prosecution, dismissing a case for mootness, dismissing a case pursuant to settlement). The remaining case is as follows:
Supulveda v. Medrano (05-10-00915-CV) – Recites well-established (1) rule that court of appeals does not have jurisdiction to enter writ of injunction in an election case; (2) rule that the appeal of an election contest becomes moot when absentee balloting has begun during the pendency of the appeal; and (3) rule that a court of appeals may, on affidavit or otherwise, ascertain matters of fact that are necessary to the exercise of its jurisdiction.