Bryan S. Foster d/b/a Jaguars Gold Club v. City of El Paso, No. 08-10-00157-CV, Court of Appeals for Eighth District (February 20, 2013.) Plaintiff Foster appeals the trial court’s granting of the City of El Paso’s motion for summary judgment related to
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New Braunsfels v STOP, NO. 03-12-00528-CV, Third Court of Appeals (February 21, 2013) This is an opinion which essentially denied the City’s Plea to the Jurisdiction. The City had a collection of ordinances designed to limit or eliminate the “over consumption” of
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Southern Crushed Concrete v City of Houston, NO. 11-0270, ___S.W.3d ____ (Tex. February 15, 2013). In this case from the Texas Supreme Court the Court held that the Texas Clean Air Act (“TCAA”) preempts certain local ordinances even if the ordinance is
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Wood v City of Texas City This is a public nuisance/substandard building case in a city utilizing a Buildings and Standards Commission. Wood owned, among many others, two properties in Galveston County which he purchased at a foreclosure sale. Following Hurricane Ike,
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LIT HW 1, L.P. v Town of Flower Mound et al. LIT owns a warehouse in Flower Mound which it leases to an electrical component recycler. The Town adopted the 2006 version of the International Building Code. LIT did not have heating
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