Stickers instructing residents to leave vacate the property at the Carter Grove Apartments in the 3400 block of North Shepherd Dr. in Houston, Tuesday, March 27, 2007.Two thirds of Harris County tenants who appeal eviction decisions against them have the eviction dismissed, according to an analysis of 2022 data by the Houston data science firm January Advisors.
January Advisors found that 1,500 of the 2,300 county court appeal cases that have been closed this year resulted in dismissals. The majority of them were dismissed because the landlord or building representatives did not show up to court. About a third of the cases were non-suited, meaning the landlord dropped the eviction proceedings, likely because both parties reached an agreement.
“If tenants were given more time between the filing and the JP court... hearing, maybe they would be able to leave prior to getting to that trial,” he said. That would ease the sheer number of eviction cases that justices of the peace are trying to hear in a day, which often tops 100. This means that JPs sometimes have only minutes to consider each case.
Marquez, at the UH clinic, said there are other reasons why a landlord might fail to appear in court or decide to nonsuit a case. Sometimes tenants appeal because they believe a mistake has been made in the justice of the peace court.
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