On July 30, Christopher Dupuy was scheduled to stand before a state district judge to show cause why he shouldn't be held in contempt for violating the court's gag order for allegedly commenting publically about his removal proceedings from Galveston County's County Court-at-Law No. 3.

Yet the day before that proceeding was scheduled to occur, Houston's 1st Court of Appeals granted an emergency motion filed by Dupuy that stays the contempt proceeding.