City of Rio Grande City, et al v. BFI Waste Services of Texas, LP d/b/a Allied Waste Services of Rio Grande Valley 04-15-00729-CV (Tex. App. – San Antonio, April 4, 2016) This is an interlocutory appeal case where the central issues are
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WASSON INTERESTS, LTD. v. CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, 14-0645 (Tex. April 1, 2016) This is a proprietary-governmental dichotomy in contracts case where the Texas Supreme Court ruled the dichotomy does exist within the context of breach of contract disputes. In the 1990s, the
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City of San Antonio v. Casey Industrial, Inc. 04-14-00429-CV (Tex. App. – San Antonio, January 27, 2016) This is an immunity in contract case where the Fourth Court of Appeals first issued an opinion in July of 2015 upholding the City’s immunity
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The United Healthcare Choice Plus Plan for City of Austin Employees and The City of Austin v. Charles Lesniak, 03-15-00309-CV (Tex. App. – Austin, December 1, 2015) This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a plea to the jurisdiction which
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Texas Municipal League Joint Self-Insurance Fund, and the The Texas Municipal League Intergovernmental Risk Pool v Housing Authority of the City of Alice, 04-15-00069-CV (Tex. App.—San Antonio, October 14, 2015). The Housing Authority is a member of a joint self-insurance pool
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Sidney B. Hale, Jr. v. City of Bonham, 06-15-00021-CV (Tex. App. – Texarkana, September 23, 2015) This is a lease/premise liability case where the Texarkana Court of Appeals dismissed the plaintiffs’ claims as the City was immune from suit. Hale rented an
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TXU Energy Retail Company L.L.C. v. Fort Bend Independent School District, 05-14-01515-CV (Tex. App. – Dallas, August 25, 2015). This is a sovereign immunity in contract case where the Fifth District Court of Appeals affirmed the granting of FBISD’s plea to the
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Canario’s, Inc. v. City of Austin, 03-14-00455-CV (Tex. App. – Austin, August 26, 2015). Canario’s, as developer of a project to construct a nightclub, deposited with the City over $100,000 to be held as fiscal security to ensure proper completion of the
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Archer Group, LLC and John Christian Archer II v. City of Anahuac, 01-14-00664-CV (Tex. App. – Houston [1st Dist.], August 4, 2015) Archer appealed the granting of a plea to the jurisdiction in favor of the City of Anahuac (“the City”), the
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City of Shavano Park v. Ard Mor, Inc., et al, 04-14-00781-CV (Tex. App. – San Antonio, July 29, 2015) This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a plea to the jurisdiction involving a challenge to an adjacent development agreement and
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