El Dorado Land Co. v City of McKinney, NO. 11-0834, (Tex. March 29, 2013) This case has gone up to the Texas Supreme Court before on interlocutory appeal, back down, and now returns. This is an inverse condemnation lawsuit where the issue
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City of McAllen v Casso, no. 13-11-00749-CV, (Tex. Civ. App. – Corpus Christy, March 28, 2013) This case has good and bad holdings for cities. Casso was a municipal judge who suffered from Lupos. Prior to her resignation due to her health,
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Patterson v City of Bellmead, No. 10-12-00357-CV (Tex. Civ. App. Waco, March 21, 2013). This is a challenge to an animal limitation ordinance. The City had an ordinance limiting the total number of cats and dogs at a single location to four.
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Texas Parks and Wildlife Department v Ruiz, No. 13-11-00789-CV, (Tex. Civ. App. – Corpus Christi, March 21, 2013). This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a plea to the jurisdiction arising out of an automobile accident. This case is applying
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City of Houston v Cogburn, NO. 01-11-00318-CV, (Tex. Civ. App. – Houston [1st dist.] March 19, 2013). This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a plea to the jurisdiction arising out of a premise/special defect case. The Plaintiff, Cogburn, parked
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This is a plea to the jurisdiction case which will probably only be interesting to litigators. It deals with when a trial court loses plenary power to change an order on a plea. The Plaintiff filed suit in 2005. The case does
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Kopplow Dev. v City of San Antonio, NO. 11-0104, (Tex. March 8, 2013) The question in this case is whether an inverse condemnation claim is premature when premised on the owner’s inability to develop its property as the city previously approved. The
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1st Court of Appeals holds “actual knowledge” of a dangerous condition is required for beach deaths.
City of Texas City v Suarez, NO. 01-12-00848-CV, (Tex. Civ. App. – Galveston, March 7, 2013). This is a Texas Tort Claims Act (“TTCA”)/ Recreational Use Statute (“RUS”) interlocutory appeal case where the Court of Appeals determined the City retained immunity for
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Chin Wu v City of San Antonio, No. 04-10-00836-CV (Tex. Civ. App. – San Antonio March 6, 2013). This is a dangerous structure/inverse condemnation takings case where the 4th Court of Appeals reversed the order granting the City of San Antonio’s summary
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Aguilar v. Williams No. 11-51069 (5th Circuit, February 19, 2013). This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of qualified immunity asserted by two police officers in their motion for summary judgment. The only thing significant about this case is the Court
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