Comunidad Balboa, LLC v. The City of Nassau Bay, et al. 14-12-00619-CV (Tex. App. – Houston [14th Dist.] June 13, 2013). This is an appeal from a non-profit developer whose claims were dismissed in the City of Nassau Bay’s plea to the
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Spicewood Springs Road Tunnel Coalition, et al v City of Austin, et al., No. 03-11-00260-CV (Tex. App. – Austin June 6, 2013). This is more of a litigator case turning on the standing of several associations to challenge the City of
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State of Texas v Momin Properties, No. 01-12-00854-CV, (Tex. App. Houston [1st Dis.] June 6, 2012) This is an inverse condemnation case brought up via interlocutory appeal from a denial of a plea to the jurisdiction. The State built an overpass on
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Carleson, et al v City of Houston, NO. 14-12-00099-CV (Tex. App – Houston [14th Dist.] May 2, 2013). Plaintiffs owns several condominiums which the City determined were unsafe for habitation and which did not have certificates of occupancy (“C/O”). After providing a
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RBII,L.P. v City of San Antonio, No. 11–50626 (5th Cir. April 23, 2013). This is a structural standards case where the City of San Antonio demolished a substandard building but failed to provide notice within a specified time period. Due to the
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The City of Austin v GHI Investments, LLC f/k/a GHI Partners, LLC, 03-12-00189-CV (Tex. App. – Austin April 30, 2013). This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of the plea to the jurisdiction relating to inverse condemnation claims for flooding (takings
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Texas West End, Inc v. City of Dallas and Texas Historical Commission, 05-11-00582-CV, (Tex. App. – April 15, 2013) This is a historic building demolition case. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway freight station was a building for which the TCI West
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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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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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Redburn v City of Victoria, 13-12-00215-CV, (Tex. Civ. App. – Corpus Christi, February 28, 2013). Redburn purchased two tracts of property in 2004, one of which had a pre-existing concrete culvert which has been part of the City’s Storm Sewer System. After
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