Kara Mettlen vs. Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff Wesley Doolittle § § § §
Official named: Montgomery County Sheriff · Sheriff Wesley Doolittle
From: sending county not recorded in Odyssey
Disposition: none recorded
Venue
What this page is. Public records, each with its source, retrieval time and file hash. It does not suggest or imply that any person or entity has engaged in illegal or improper conduct. Many people and entities have the same or similar names; open the source before relying on a match. Figures marked derived are computed from the records by the rule on the Method page and are not findings. Corrections.
A case that leaves this county is marked in the index as "Transferred Out of County". A case that arrives is not marked at all — it simply gets a Montgomery case number. The one trace is a line in the docket, Transfer (County Use Only)(OCA), entered on the day the District Clerk received the file. Of every scraped docket that carries that line, this page lists the ones in which the county or a county official is a named party.
Two things the record cannot say. It does not name the county the case came from — Odyssey never records it, so "origin" below is filled only where a published source names it. And a transfer is a ruling by the sending court on venue (often mandatory venue: a suit against a county must be heard in that county), not a choice by the court that receives it. Which judge the case then lands with is the county's assignment, and an "Order of Assignment" on the docket means a judge was assigned — the index does not say who.
The rule behind the rate: A case is decided when the docket carries a disposition. It counts as dismissed when the disposition or its comment says dismissed, nonsuit, or plea to the jurisdiction granted. Anything else with a judgment is listed as a judgment and has to be read. No judgment against the county or an official appears in this set.
By receiving court: 457th · 135284th · 106410th · 31CCL 6 · 21418th · 17CCL 3 · 16CCL 2 · 1Probate 1 · 1 Family and protected matters (496) are excluded here as on every page of this site.
Each card is the docket as pulled. Click a card for the full event list. Names are as the court filed them; a party's presence on a docket is not a finding about them.
Kara Mettlen vs. Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff Wesley Doolittle § § § §
Official named: Montgomery County Sheriff · Sheriff Wesley Doolittle
From: sending county not recorded in Odyssey
Disposition: none recorded
Susan Kenningham vs. Mark Keough § § § §
Official named: Mark Keough (County Judge) — sued personally, over conduct as senior pastor of The Woodlands Bible Church
From: Harris County, 129th District Court, No. 2025-78146 (filed 2025-10-13)
How: Defendant Keough's Motion to Transfer Venue (2025-11-10) granted by Judge Michael Gomez 2026-03-23, over a declaration from Craig Doyal that an impartial trial was not possible in Montgomery County. (Montgomery County News 2026-03-23; Houston Chronicle 2026-01-31)
Disposition: Final Judgment after Non-Jury Trial · 07/31/2026 · "Order of Dismissal" · judicial officer of record Santini, Vincenzo J
Jessica Nicole Umanzor-Kassir, Omar Farouk Kassir vs. Kevin Sean Bates, Montgomery County § § § §
From: sending county not recorded in Odyssey
Disposition: Dismissed · 11/07/2025 · "Order on Amended Motion for Sanctions" · judicial officer of record Santini, Vincenzo J
Deborah Davenport Individually As Next Friend of C.G. And Z.G., Minors And On Behalf of The Estate of Esoterica Spivey vs. Montgomery County ,MONTGOMERY COUNTY PRECINCT 4 § § § §
From: sending county not recorded in Odyssey
Disposition: Final Judgment after Non-Jury Trial · 08/01/2025 · "Final Judgment of Dismissal: Order Granting Defendants' Plea to the Jurisdiction" · judicial officer of record Bays, Kristin
Marlo Andres Alvarado vs. Montgomery County, Texas a/k/a Montgomery County Sherriff's Office § § § §
From: sending county not recorded in Odyssey
Disposition: none recorded
Wen L. Patience vs. Shannon Jackson, Montgomery County District Attorney's Department DA, Carmen R. Morales, Romero Lee § § § §
Official named: Montgomery County District Attorney's Department DA
From: Fort Bend County, 400th District Court (petition 2022-12-29 per the Ninth Court of Appeals; Odyssey shows 2022-11-16)
How: Removed to federal court 2023-01-18 and remanded 2023-05-31; Fort Bend found venue improper there and mandatory in Montgomery County, order for transfer 2024-07-02. Rule 91a dismissal granted 2024-09-05; appeal 09-24-00328-CV. (Ninth Court of Appeals, 09-24-00328-CV; Odyssey docket events)
Disposition: Dismissed · 09/05/2024 · "Order Granting Defendants' Motion to Dismiss" · judicial officer of record Bays, Kristin
Juan Beltran Montenegro vs. Blake Allen Lapaglia and Montgomery County § § § §
From: sending county not recorded in Odyssey
Disposition: Dismissed · 08/31/2023 · "Plaintiff's Notice of Non-Suit and Order of Non-Suit" · judicial officer of record Santini, Vincenzo J
*The mirror image. An official as plaintiff filed in Montgomery County and the defendants asked to move the case out; it stayed. Listed because the venue question is the same one, asked from the other side.
Amanda Gray and Matthew Gray, Individually, and as next friend of B.J.G., A Minor v. Richard Sisney, and Jessica Sisney, Individually, and as Next of Friend of J.S., A Minor § § § §
Official: Matt Gray (Commissioner Pct 4) — plaintiff
On the docket: Commissioner Gray filed in the 457th on 2025-07-01. The defendants moved to transfer venue to another county on 2025-07-28 (their position: venue belonged in Harris County, where the events occurred); the case stayed in the 457th. Partial summary judgment 2026-03-06; Order of Assignment 2026-05-26; jury trial set 2026-09-14. The site owner's spouse is counsel for the defendants — read the docket, not this note. (Odyssey docket 25-07-10523; KPRC 2 (2026-09-08))
Disposition: Partial Summary Judgment · 03/06/2026 · judicial officer of record Santini, Vincenzo J
Built 2026-09-22T22:15:47Z from the docket pages under the provenance root; see Sources. Origins cited: Montgomery County News (2026-03-23), Houston Chronicle (2026-01-31), Ninth Court of Appeals 09-24-00328-CV. The full transfer list is in the downloadable dataset. The church side of the same records is on Churches.