OPINION AND PREFILING ORDER Dear Mr. Green: By many different documents you have sent to this Court, it appears you have attempted to sue someone for damages.[1] You have sent these documents directly to this Court making a variety of claims against a variety of persons. But this Court, the Tenth Court of Appeals, is an appellate court. We have repeatedly told you, and held in countless opinions, that we only have jurisdiction as an appellate court to review a final judgment of a trial court. When you file a claim directly with this Court seeking damages from someone, we have no choice but to dismiss your claim because we have no jurisdiction to decide the issue. You have done this so often, and we dismissed so many of your proceedings, that you cannot believe that this type of complaint is going to be considered by this Court. There is simply no good faith basis for you to believe that we can or will render a judgment on the merits of your claim. In the past, we have even asked for clarification of your pleading or an explanation of why we would have jurisdiction to consider it. We have never received a response that is helpful for us to understand the basis of your claims or your repeated filing of such claims directly in this Court. This Court has been extraordinarily patient with you. But this is the end. Your document, which appears to have been signed on January 5, 2020 and which we received on January 14, 2020, is the last such “complaint” that this Court will file. As with so many other complaints that you have filed here, we dismiss this one also because there can be no final judgment because you never filed this complaint in the trial court. Accordingly, this proceeding is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Pursuant to our inherent authority, the Court orders the Clerk of this Court to not file any new claims, appeals, or other proceedings received from you until it has been approved for filing by the Chief Justice of this Court or the designee of the Chief Justice of this Court. The Clerk of this Court is further ordered to create a miscellaneous documents file in which anything we receive from you will be placed after it is received and reviewed, unless the Chief Justice or the designee of the Chief Justice orders it filed as a new proceeding.[2] Your repeated action of filing numerous wholly frivolous claims that have no basis in law or fact and asking this Court to take any action thereon leaves us no available alternative.[3] We find your repeated action in filing these frivolous proceedings has no legitimate basis and is for the sole purpose of wasting this Court’s time and other resources and to harass both this Court and the litigants that you purport to make claims against. The manner and method of your conduct in filing these meritless proceedings here may not fit within the statutory definition of a vexatious litigant, but by every non- statutory definition, we find that is precisely what you are. In summary, the Clerk of this Court will no longer file your documents, or create a new proceeding with you as the appellant/relator/petitioner/applicant, unless and until the Chief Justice of this Court or the designee of the Chief Justice of this Court has reviewed it and determined that it should be filed. We take no pleasure in taking this action. But at some point, we must take some action to protect our limited resources from waste and abuse so that persons with non- frivolous claims may obtain the review to which they are entitled. You have the right to explain in a motion for rehearing why you feel we should not take the above described actions at this time in response to what you have filed in this proceeding and in previous proceedings filed in this Court. Your motion for rehearing or a motion for extension of time to file a motion for rehearing must be filed by March 19, 2020. PER CURIAM Before Chief Justice Gray, Justice Davis, and Justice Neill Pet. dismissed Opinion delivered and filed March 4, 2020 [OT06]
