Court of Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Deloris PHILLIPS, Appellant

v.

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE DIVISION OF WORKERS’ COMPENSATION, Fleming Companies, Inc., Bankers Standard, United Parcel Service, Inc., Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Teamsters Local Union 767, and Esis, Appellees

No. 05-21-00498-CV

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Opinion Filed August 31, 2021

Attorneys & Firms

Christopher M. Losey, for Appellee Liberty Mutual Insurance/UPSv.

John V. Jansonius, for Appellee United Parcel Service, Inc.

Robert Reginald Graves Jr., for Appellee Bankers Standard/ESIS.

Deloris Phillips, Pro Se.

Jefferson E. Boyt, for Appellee Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers Compensation.

James Roddy Roddy Tanner, for Appellee Teamsters Local Union 767.

Before Justices Osborne, Pedersen, III, and Nowell

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Opinion by Justice Osborne

*1 In her notice of appeal, appellant states that she is appealing from an order orally rendered denying her appointment of counsel. We questioned our jurisdiction over the appeal because, even assuming the trial court has signed an order, such an order is neither a final judgment nor an appealable interlocutory order. See Lehmann v. Har-Con Corp., 39 S.W.3d 191, 195 (Tex. 2001) (generally appellate courts have jurisdiction only over appeals from final judgments and interlocutory orders permitted by statute); Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 51.014(a) (listing appealable interlocutory orders).

As requested appellant filed a letter brief. She also filed an amended notice of appeal to additionally challenge the trial court’s denial of her motion for discovery. Neither an order denying a motion to appoint counsel nor a motion for discovery is an appealable interlocutory order that confers jurisdiction on the Court, and nothing in appellant’s letter brief demonstrates our jurisdiction. See Wilcox v. Wilcox, No. 05-09-01421-CV, 2010 WL 457434, at *1 (Tex. App.—Dallas Feb. 11, 2010, no pet.) (mem. op.) (order on motion to appoint counsel not appealable); See Sharma v. Vinmar Int’l, Ltd., 231 S.W.3d 405, 422 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2007, no pet.) (order denying discovery not appealable). Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a).