Juan Antonio Sepulveda v. Robert L. Kimpel and Mark Kimpel

COURT OF APPEALS
EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
EL PASO, TEXAS
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No. 08-26-00147-CV
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Juan Antonio Sepulveda, Appellant

v.

Robert L. Kimpel and Mark Kimpel, Appellees

On Appeal from the 41st District Court
El Paso County, Texas
Trial Court No. 2020DCV3526

M E MO RA N D UM O PI NI O N

Appellant, Juan Antonion Sepulveda, filed an unopposed motion to dismiss this

interlocutory appeal. 1 According to Appellant’s motion, the trial court “amended its order to grant

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Appellees had brought various claims against Appellants, seeking, among other things, declaratory and injunctive
relief. After the trial court issued a summary judgment order that Appellant claimed functioned as a temporary
injunction, Appellant filed an interlocutory appeal. See Harley Channelview Props., LLC v. Harley Marine Gulf, LLC,
summary judgment without awarding the injunctive relief at issue in this interlocutory appeal,”

rendering the appeal moot.

We grant the motion and dismiss the appeal as moot. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.1(a)(1); see

also Nat’l Collegiate Athletic Ass’n v. Jones, 1 S.W.3d 83, 86 (Tex. 1999) (holding that courts are

prohibited from deciding moot controversies).

LISA J. SOTO, Justice

May 15, 2026

Before Salas Mendoza, C.J., Palafox and Soto, JJ.

690 S.W.3d 32, 35, 41 (Tex. 2024) (holding that the court of appeals had jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from
a “prejudgment enforcement order that functions as a temporary injunction.”).

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