Daisy Wanda Garcia v. Thomas Lee Baumgarten ( 2015 )

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03-14-00267-CV
5010309
THIRD COURT OF APPEALS
AUSTIN, TEXAS
4/23/2015 3:25:43 PM
JEFFREY D. KYLE
CLERK
NO. 03-14-00267-CV
In the Court of Appeals FILED IN
3rd COURT OF APPEALS
for the Third Judicial District of Texas AUSTIN, TEXAS
at Austin 4/23/2015 3:25:43 PM
JEFFREY D. KYLE
Clerk
DAISY WANDA GARCIA,
Appellant/Defendant,
v.
THOMAS LEE BAUMGARTEN,
Appellee/Plaintiff.
Appeal from the 201st Judicial District Court
Travis County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. D-1-GN-12-002429
APPELLEE’S RESPONSE TO APPELLANT’S EMERGENCY
MOTION TO ABATE, AND REQUEST FOR SANCTIONS
Nicholas P. Laurent
State Bar No. 24065591
Raymond E. White
State Bar No. 21321950
MCGINNIS, LOCHRIDGE & KILGORE, L.L.P.
600 Congress Avenue, Suite 2100
Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 495-6000
(512) 495-6093 FAX
nlaurent@mcginnislaw.com
rwhite@mcginnislaw.com
ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE
THOMAS LEE BAUMGARTEN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SUMMARY OF RESPONSE ............................................................................................. 1
STATEMENT OF FACTS .................................................................................................. 2
ARGUMENT....................................................................................................................... 7
1. Garcia abandoned and alienated any homestead rights she may have
had when she agreed in a written settlement agreement to vacate and
sell the Exposition Property. ......................................................................... 7
2. Garcia’s new contention on appeal that she was married to
Baumgarten has been waived because it was not raised at the trial
court. ............................................................................................................ 10
3. The Family Code presumes Garcia and Baumgarten were not
married because Garcia waited thirty-four years to make such a
suggestion. ................................................................................................... 10
4. Garcia should be estopped from asserting her new contention on
appeal because it is contrary to her prior, sworn testimony and is
contrary to her current representations to this Court. .................................. 11
5. Garcia’s Emergency Motion to Abate is nothing more than another
attempt to delay these proceedings without cause. ..................................... 13
REQUEST FOR SANCTIONS ......................................................................................... 14
CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................. 15
PRAYER ........................................................................................................................... 16
CERTIFICATE OF CONFERENCE ................................................................................ 17
WORD COUNT CERTIFICATION ................................................................................. 17
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE .......................................................................................... 18
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TO THE HONORABLE THIRD COURT OF APPEALS:
SUMMARY OF RESPONSE
Garcia agreed in a written settlement agreement to vacate and sell the
property at issue in this case, and in doing so, she waived and released all of the
issues on which she bases her Emergency Motion to Abate. Later regretting her
decision to agree to vacate and sell the property, Garcia filed numerous motions
with the trial court and two motions with this Court in an effort to stop the sale.
The trial court denied all of her motions and this Court denied all of her motions.
Garcia also filed a motion with the Supreme Court of Texas to stop the sale and the
Supreme Court of Texas denied her motion. Garcia still to this day has never
posted a supersedeas bond to suspend enforcement of the judgment rendered
against her.
Now, in yet another eleventh hour attempt to stop the sale of the property
she agreed to sell, Garcia suggests for the first time that she was married to
Mr. Baumgarten and that this new issue she manufactures out of whole cloth
should stop this appeal from proceeding. Garcia’s new argument was never raised
before the trial court, is presumed invalid under the Family Code, and is directly
contrary to her prior, explicit representation to this Court that she was never
married to Mr. Baumgarten. See Appellant’s Brief at p. 3 (“Baumgarten negotiated
the terms of the purchase and arranged that the property would be purchased in
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both their names, as husband and wife, but, of course, they were not married.”
(emphasis added)). In fact, this newly manufactured issue is directly contrary to
one of Garcia’s primary defenses to Mr. Baumgarten’s claims at the trial court –
that Mr. Baumgarten promised to marry her but did not fulfill his promise.
Garcia’s Emergency1 Motion to Abate is just another delay tactic that should
be denied.
STATEMENT OF FACTS
Baumgarten and Garcia jointly purchased real property in 1979 on
Exposition Blvd. in Austin, Texas (the “Exposition Property”). CR 29-32. They
resided at the Exposition Property together for a few years and then parted ways,
with Baumgarten moving to Houston. CR 61 (p. 78, ln. 7-9). They both continued
to be co-owners of the Exposition Property. By Garcia’s own admission, she and
Baumgarten ceased living together in 1981. See Garcia’s Emergency Motion to
Abate at ¶ 8.
After Baumgarten moved to Houston, Garcia had lawyers ask him to
gratuitously sign deeds conveying his 1/2 interest in the Exposition Property to her
in 1992 and 2011. CR 185 (p.95, ln. 24-25, p. 96, ln. 1-3), 131-36. Garcia then
threatened to sue Baumgarten and Baumgarten filed the underlying lawsuit seeking
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Garcia does not make clear in her motion why she believes the motion should be considered an
emergency or determined on an expedited basis.
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to partition the Exposition Property he co-owned with Garcia in a partition sale.
CR 131-36, 4-8.
Garcia’s two defenses to Baumgarten’s partition claims were that she had
adversely possessed the property from her cotenant, Baumgarten, and that she had
allowed Baumgarten to be on the deed to the Exposition Property because he
supposedly promised to marry her, but that he did not follow through on his
promise and he should now be estopped from owning an interest in the Exposition
Property. See, e.g., CR 584-85.
During Garcia’s deposition, she unequivocally stated the following
regarding Baumgarten:
Q. Have you ever been married?
A. No.
Q. And you’re not married now?
A. No.
CR 461 (p. 14, ln. 3-6) (emphasis added). See also CR 199 (Baumgarten
deposition) (p. 150, ln. 23-25) (“Q. Well, were you [Mr. Baumgarten] married to
her [Ms. Garcia], that’s the question? A. No.”).
From the time Garcia and Baumgarten separated in 1981 until March 16,
2015 (when Garcia filed a pro se will contest), Garcia contended she was not
married to Baumgarten. Garcia never suggested or even hinted to the trial court
that she was married to Baumgarten. Indeed, her contention that she was not
married to Baumgarten was a critical part of her defense to Baumgarten’s partition
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claim. See, e.g., CR 584-85. For example, Garcia stated under oath in an affidavit
in responding to Baumgarten’s motion for summary judgment:
In 1977 I decided to buy the Timber Ridge townhome. I used the
proceeds of the sale of a rent house in Corpus Christi my father had
given me to make the down payment. Tom dealt with the realtor and
arranged for the townhouse to be purchased in our names as husband
and wife. We never married, although he purchased an engagement
ring and I assumed we would marry, but we did not.
In 1979 we sold the Timber Ridge townhome and used the proceeds to
purchase the home at 1901 Exposition. Again, Tom handled the
closing for us, and the home [1901 Exposition Blvd.] was purchased
in both our names, this time not as husband and wife.
CR 331 (emphasis added).
Garcia’s contention that she was not married to Baumgarten was so
important to her defenses at the trial court that she affirmatively states as much in
page 3 of her brief on the merits currently pending before this Court. See
Appellant’s Brief at p. 3 (“Baumgarten negotiated the terms of the purchase and
arranged that the property would be purchased in both their names, as husband and
wife, but, of course, they were not married.” (emphasis added)).
After the trial court correctly rendered summary judgment in favor of
Baumgarten on all of Garcia’s defenses to the partition claims, the parties agreed to
settle the case. CR 312, 383, 532-44. Irrespective of whether they were married or
not, Garcia agreed to pay Baumgarten a certain amount in exchange for his 1/2
interest in the Exposition Property. CR 534. It is undisputed she did not do so.
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CR 547 at Nos. 68, 69 and 550-51 at ¶ 3. The settlement agreement contemplated
such an eventuality and provided that if Garcia did not pay Baumgarten the agreed-
upon amount, Garcia would vacate the Exposition Property, the property would be
sold, and the proceeds would be divided among the parties. CR 536 at ¶ 8.
The trial court granted Baumgarten summary judgment on his breach of
settlement agreement claim on April 18, 2014, ordered Garcia to vacate the
Exposition Property, ordered that the Exposition Property be sold, and ordered the
proceeds divided among the parties. CR 666-69. This is the judgment Garcia is
appealing in this matter.
Despite her written agreement and the trial court’s order, Garcia refused to
vacate. Consequently, Baumgarten filed a motion to show cause why Garcia
should not be held in contempt of the trial court’s order.
After Baumgarten filed the motion to show cause, Garcia asked this Court to
enter an emergency order enjoining and staying the sale of the Exposition Property
pending this appeal. See Cause No. 03-14-00282-CV, In re Daisy Wanda Garcia,
in the Texas Court of Appeals, Third District, at Austin (filed April 28, 2014).
This Court denied Garcia’s request. See Cause No. 03-14-00282-CV, In re Daisy
Wanda Garcia, in the Texas Court of Appeals, Third District, at Austin,
Memorandum Opinion (dated May 16, 2014).
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The trial court ultimately set the supersedeas bond amount at $175,000,
which represented less than 1/2 of Ms. Garcia’s $352,626 net worth. Garcia filed a
motion with this Court challenging the amount of the supersedeas bond and this
Court denied Garcia’s motion. See Garcia’s Motion for Review of Supersedeas
Deposit Amount dated September 12, 2014. Garcia asked for a writ of mandamus
from the Supreme Court of Texas and the Supreme Court of Texas summarily
denied her writ of mandamus. See Notice from Supreme Court of Texas, Case No.
14-0768, In re Daisy Wanda Garcia, in the Supreme Court of Texas (dated
October 2, 2014). Garcia also filed a Motion for Emergency Stay with the
Supreme Court of Texas and the Supreme Court of Texas summarily denied her
Motion for Emergency Stay. See id.
Garcia never posted a supersedeas bond and, consequently, Baumgarten
filed a motion with the trial court seeking to hold Garcia in contempt of court for
refusing to vacate the Exposition Property as required by the trial court’s judgment.
The trial court found Garcia in contempt of court and ordered her to vacate. Garcia
was thereafter forcibly removed from the Exposition Property pursuant to a writ of
possession served by the Travis County Constable’s Office. Pursuant to the trial
court’s order, the Exposition Property is now under contract to be sold.
On November 21, 2014, Baumgarten passed away. Paul Baumgarten,
Thomas Baumgarten’s independent executor, filed a Notice of Death of
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Appellee/Plaintiff on December 19, 2014 after applying to probate Thomas
Baumgarten’s will in the Harris County Probate Court No. 2.
After Garcia discovered the Exposition Property was under contract to be
sold, on March 16, 2015 she filed a so called “will contest” with the Harris County
Probate Court No. 2. In her “will contest,” she now “claims she is the common
law spouse of Thomas Lee Baumgarten. . . .” See Garcia’s Emergency Motion to
Abate, Exhibit 3, ¶ 2. This is the first time Garcia has ever stated she was married
to Baumgarten in these legal proceedings. Garcia’s new contention is a total
fabrication of the facts and runs directly contrary to her numerous representations
to both the trial court and this Court that she was never married to Baumgarten.
ARGUMENT
1. Garcia abandoned and alienated any homestead rights she may have
had when she agreed in a written settlement agreement to vacate and
sell the Exposition Property.
In some circumstances, a surviving spouse may continue to occupy
homestead property, but only so long as he or she does not abandon or alienate the
property. TEX. CONST. art. XVI, § 52; TEX. ESTATES CODE §§ 102.002-102.006;
Copeland v. Tarrant Appraisal Dist., 906 S.W.2d 148, 151 (Tex. App.—Fort
Worth 1995, writ denied). However, a homestead, even as to a surviving spouse,
will lose its status as the homestead if it is abandoned or alienated. See Patterson
v. First Nat’l Bank of Lake Jackson, 921 S.W.2d 240, 246 (Tex. App.—Houston
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[14th Dist.] 1996, no writ); Long Bell Lumber Co. v. Miller, 240 S.W.2d 405, 406
(Tex. Civ. App.—Amarillo 1951, no writ).
Garcia agreed with Baumgarten in a written settlement that if she did not pay
Baumgarten as agreed on or before a date certain for his 1/2 share of the
Exposition Property, she would vacate and the Exposition Property would be sold:
Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, if Garcia is unable to obtain a
reverse mortgage within 90 days from the effective date of this
Agreement, . . . Baumgarten and Garcia agree that Garcia will vacate
the Property within 60 days thereafter, and the parties will list the
Property for sale at a price of the average of three appraisals, will use
a real estate agent selected by Baumgarten, will sell the Property to
the first person or entity who offers at least the list price, with
Baumgarten and Garcia splitting the sales proceeds and costs evenly
(excluding taxes and insurance, which shall be borne solely by
Garcia), and will sign all documents necessary to accomplish such a
sale.
CR 536 at ¶ 8.
Garcia’s agreement to vacate and sell the Exposition Property can be
construed as nothing other than a conscious and deliberate abandonment and
alienation of any homestead rights that may have existed, assuming she even had
any such rights to begin with. Nothing the Houston probate court determines will
vary the terms of the written agreement Garcia executed that constituted a waiver
and release of any homestead rights that may have existed. Moreover, the
settlement agreement has already been enforced by the trial court; there is nothing
the Houston probate court needs to do or can do regarding the Exposition Property.
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Additionally, even if Baumgarten and Garcia had been married, which they never
were, Baumgarten’s will lawfully bequeathed all of his assets to his brother, Paul
Baumgarten, which would properly include Baumgarten’s purported “community
half” of the Exposition Property, depriving Garcia of any standing for her self-
styled “will contest.” Garcia’s Emergency Motion to Abate can be denied on this
basis alone.
Moreover, in the settlement agreement Garcia explicitly released the claims
upon which her Emergency Motion to Abate are based. The settlement agreement
provides:
Garcia and each of her respective Representatives release, settle,
compromise, extinguish, relinquish, absolve, disclaim and forever
discharge Baumgarten and each of his respective Representatives of
and from any and all rights, claims, counterclaims, charges, causes of
action, demands, debts, liabilities, agreements, promises, damages,
losses and claims for recovery, fixed or contingent, liquidated or
unliquidated, known or unknown, arising at any time from the
beginning of time to the Effective Date of this Agreement, in
connection with, arising from, or to arise by reason of, any matters
asserted in or which might have been asserted in the Lawsuit or which
relate in any way, directly or indirectly, to the Lawsuit, any dealings
between Baumgarten and Garcia, and/or any other matter, including
but not limited to those claims asserted in the Lawsuit for partition,
declaratory relief, and attorneys’ fees; provided, however, that this
release does not affect the Parties’ right and obligations under the
terms of this Agreement.
CR 537 at ¶ 10. Garcia’s Emergency Motion to Abate can also be denied on this
basis alone.
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2. Garcia’s new contention on appeal that she was married to Baumgarten
has been waived because it was not raised at the trial court.
Garcia suggests in her Emergency Motion to Abate that she has been
married to Baumgarten since at least 1969. See Garcia’s Emergency Motion to
Abate at ¶ 6. Garcia, however, never once suggested to the trial court that she had
been married to Baumgarten at any time, much less some thirty-plus years. Rather,
Garcia’s contention that she was married to Baumgarten is being raised for the first
time on appeal. Garcia’s failure to raise this argument before the trial court waives
the argument in its entirety. See TEX. R. APP. P. 33.1(a)(1)(A); Larsen v.
FDIC/Manager Fund, 835 S.W.2d 66, 74 (Tex. 1992) (“Under Texas procedure,
absent ‘fundamental error’ not in issue in this appeal, a court of appeals has no
discretion to reverse an error-free judgment based on a new argument (‘unassigned
error’ in the trial court) raised for the first time on appeal.”).
3. The Family Code presumes Garcia and Baumgarten were not married
because Garcia waited thirty-four years to make such a suggestion.
Even if Garcia had not waived and released any homestead rights she may
have had in the written settlement agreement and had preserved this argument for
appeal, her new contention that she was married to Baumgarten is time barred as a
matter of law. The Family Code provides:
If a proceeding in which a marriage is to be proved as provided by
Subsection (a)(2) [an informal or common law marriage] is not
commenced before the second anniversary of the date on which the
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parties separated and ceased living together, it is rebuttably presumed
that the parties did not enter into an agreement to be married.
TEX. FAMILY CODE § 2.401(b).
Garcia states in her Emergency Motion to Abate that she was married to
Baumgarten in 1969. See Emergency Motion to Abate at ¶ 6. Garcia further
concedes she ceased living with Baumgarten in 1981. See id. at ¶ 8. Under the
plain terms of the Family Code, then, there is a rebuttable presumption that Garcia
and Baumgarten were not married. Garcia and Baumgarten have also both testified
under oath that they were never married to each other, which effectively destroys
any possibility that the presumption could ever be rebutted. See CR 461 (p. 14, ln.
3-6) and CR 199 (p. 150, ln. 23-25). Garcia’s desperation, flip-flop claim that she
was married to Baumgarten is thirty-four years too late because she and
Baumgarten ceased living together in 1981. See TEX. FAMILY CODE § 2.401(b).
4. Garcia should be estopped from asserting her new contention on appeal
because it is contrary to her prior, sworn testimony and is contrary to
her current representations to this Court.
Garcia has represented on numerous occasions to both the trial court and this
Court that she was not married to Baumgarten. In Garcia’s brief on the merits she
filed with this Court on July 1, 2014, she states: “Baumgarten negotiated the terms
of the purchase and arranged that the property would be purchased in both their
names, as husband and wife, but, of course, they were not married.” Appellant’s
Brief at p. 3 (emphasis added). Garcia also previously testified:
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Q. Have you ever been married?
A. No.
Q. And you’re not married now?
A. No.
CR 461 (p. 14, ln. 3-6) (emphasis added).
Additionally, Garcia’s defense to Baumgarten’s partition claims at the trial
court and before this Court is that she allowed Baumgarten to be on the deed to the
Exposition Property because he promised to marry her, but alas he did not marry
her and thus did not fulfill his promise. This defense premised on her non-
marriage to Baumgarten was first asserted in Garcia’s First Amended Original
Answer filed with the trial court on March 22, 2013. CR 12-16. This defense
premised on her non-marriage to Baumgarten was reiterated by Garcia in her
Second Amended Original Answer filed with the trial court on July 30, 2013 and in
her Third Amended Original Answer filed with the trial court on April 8, 2014.
CR 384-89 and CR 582-88. Up until a week ago, Garcia has consistently and
repeatedly claimed that she and Baumgarten were never married.
Garcia also adamantly reaffirmed that she was never married to Baumgarten
in a sworn affidavit she used in responding to Baumgarten’s motion for summary
judgment on her affirmative defenses. Garcia stated under oath:
In 1977 I decided to buy the Timber Ridge townhome. I used the
proceeds of the sale of a rent house in Corpus Christi my father had
given me to make the down payment. Tom dealt with the realtor and
arranged for the townhouse to be purchased in our names as husband
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and wife. We never married, although he purchased an engagement
ring and I assumed we would marry, but we did not.
In 1979 we sold the Timber Ridge townhome and used the proceeds to
purchase the home at 1901 Exposition. Again, Tom handled the
closing for us, and the home [1901 Exposition Blvd.] was purchased
in both our names, this time not as husband and wife.
CR 331 (emphasis added).
Garcia has exhaustively taken the position, literally for years, that she was
not and had never been married to Baumgarten. She should now be estopped from
claiming otherwise with her fifth lawyer in this case in what is nothing more than a
blatant and wrongful attempt to stop the sale of the Exposition Property.
5. Garcia’s Emergency Motion to Abate is nothing more than another
attempt to delay these proceedings without cause.
Garcia has tried numerous times to stop the sale of the Exposition Property,
despite her agreement to vacate and sell it. Every one of Garcia’s motions has
been denied. Garcia has asked this Court twice to stop the sale and both motions
were denied. Garcia has asked the Supreme Court of Texas to stop the sale and the
Supreme Court of Texas has denied Garcia’s request. All of Garcia’s motions
have been denied because Garcia plainly has a remedy under the Texas Rules of
Appellate Procedure to stop the sale – she may post a supersedeas bond. See TEX.
R. APP. P. 24. Garcia has chosen not to do so and cannot be permitted to continue
trying to manufacture new ways to supplant the requirements of TEX. R. APP. P. 24.
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Garcia’s exhaustive motion practice in an improper and bad faith effort to
stop the sale of the Exposition Property has caused the parties to unnecessarily
incur thousands upon thousands of dollars in attorneys’ fees. Garcia’s efforts to
make an end run around the Rules of Appellate Procedure should, again, be
squarely rejected.
REQUEST FOR SANCTIONS
Counsel for Baumgarten is always loathe to request sanctions in any
proceeding, particularly in appellate proceedings, given the usual decorum
demonstrated by counsel in appellate matters. Nevertheless, Garcia’s conduct in
hiring and firing multiple lawyers to make a eleventh hour diametrically contrary
argument out of desperation and whenever convenient for her to do so
unnecessarily and unfairly drives up litigation costs. For example, Baumgarten has
responded to Garcia’s argument on the merits that is premised on her non-marriage
to Baumgarten. It is unclear, now, if Garcia continues to urge that defense because
now she has now decided to change course and take the opposite position. This
creates a moving target or shell game of sorts and unfairly prejudices Baumgarten
in that he is not given a fair opportunity to respond to a cognizable legal argument.
If Garcia is permitted to hire and fire new lawyers to take whatever position is
convenient for her at the time, it makes a mockery of our judicial system.
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Consequently, Baumgarten requests that the Court sanction Garcia in the
amount of at least $2,500 for filing a frivolous pleading and order a show cause
hearing for her new counsel of record, Stephen Casey, to demonstrate the
reasonably diligent investigation he conducted into the allegations asserted, in light
of Garcia’s sworn testimony and pleadings to the absolute contrary throughout this
litigation up to this point. See, e.g., TEX. R. APP. P. 45.
CONCLUSION
When Garcia agreed in a written settlement agreement to vacate and sell the
Exposition Property she also waived and released all of the issues on which her
Emergency Motion to Abate is based. Garcia’s Emergency Motion to Abate can
be denied on that basis alone.
Even if Garcia had not already waived and released all of the issues upon
which her Emergency Motion to Abate is based, she should be estopped from flip-
flopping her litigation position at the eleventh hour. Garcia has always maintained
she was never married to Baumgarten, has stated as much multiple times under
oath, and is currently representing to this Court in her brief on the merits that she
was never married to Baumgarten. Garcia’s attempts to stop the sale of the
Exposition Property while skirting the requirements of TEX. R. APP. P. 24 should
be rejected and her Emergency Motion to Abate should be denied.
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PRAYER
Appellee respectfully prays that the Court deny Appellant’s Emergency
Motion to Abate, impose sanctions on Garcia for filing a frivolous pleading, order
a show cause hearing for Garcia’s new counsel of record, Stephen Casey, to
demonstrate the reasonably diligent investigation he conducted into the allegations
asserted, and grant all other relief to which Appellee may show himself entitled.
Respectfully submitted,
Nicholas P. Laurent
State Bar No. 24065591
Raymond E. White
State Bar No. 21321950
MCGINNIS, LOCHRIDGE & KILGORE, L.L.P.
600 Congress Avenue, Suite 2100
Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 495-6000
(512) 495-6093 FAX
nlaurent@mcginnislaw.com
rwhite@mcginnislaw.com
By: /s/ Nicholas P. Laurent
Nicholas P. Laurent
ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE
THOMAS LEE BAUMGARTEN
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CERTIFICATE OF CONFERENCE
I certify that on April 14, 2015, I sent a detailed email to Stephen Casey and
John Foster, counsel for Garcia, with quotations and references to specific
pleadings, deposition testimony, and similar materials that directly contradict
Garcia’s new factual and legal position as stated in her Emergency Motion to
Abate. Mr. Casey was further advised that if Garcia continued to urge her
Emergency Motion to Abate that Mr. Baumgarten may be forced to request relief
from the Court in connection with her motion, including a request for sanctions.
Mr. Casey responded and refused to withdraw the Emergency Motion to Abate.
/s/ Nicholas P. Laurent
Nicholas P. Laurent
WORD COUNT CERTIFICATION
I certify that the foregoing Appellee’s Response to Appellant’s Emergency
Motion to Abate, and Request for Sanctions was prepared with Microsoft Word
2007, and that, according to that program’s word-count function, the sections
covered by TEX. R. APP. P. 9.4(i)(1) contain 3,731 words.
/s/ Nicholas P. Laurent
Nicholas P. Laurent
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I certify that a true and complete copy of the above and foregoing Appellee’s
Response to Appellant’s Emergency Motion to Abate, and Request for Sanctions
was sent by electronic mail and certified mail, return receipt requested on this the
23th day of April, 2015 to the following:
Mr. John L. Foster Mr. Stephen Casey
812 San Antonio Street, Suite 400 Casey Law Office, P.C.
Austin, Texas 78701 595 Round Rock West Drive, Suite 102
(512) 476-4473 Round Rock, Texas 78681
(512) 474-1606 (fax) (512) 257-1324
john@johnlfoster.com (512) 853-4098 (fax)
info@caseylawoffice.us
ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANT
DAISY WANDA GARCIA ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANT
DAISY WANDA GARCIA
/s/ Nicholas P. Laurent
Nicholas P. Laurent
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