Cortez v. Johnston

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice MOSELEY.

Carlos Cortez has appealed an order of a trial court determining that certain docu*470ments presented to and file stamped by the District Clerk of Dallas County are “court records” as defined in Rule 76a of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure.1

The controversy over these documents has its genesis in a dispute between Cortez and Coyt Randal (Randy) Johnston, the named defendant in the suit from which this appeal is being prosecuted. This is not this Court’s first exposure to the dispute between Cortez and Johnston. Cortez, a Dallas County district judge, had brought…