Harris County – Houston Sports Authority v Chilei, NO. 14-12-00380-CV (Tex. App. Houston [14 Dist.] April 25, 2012) Chilei sued Harris County – Houston Sports Authority (“HSA”) for negligence under the Texas Tort Claims Act for injuries sustained while performing electrical work
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Antoine v. First Student, Inc., No. 11-31126, 2013 WL 1457528, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 7273 (5th Cir. Apr. 10, 2013). This is a religious accommodation case. Antoine was a bus driver for First Student operating for the Orleans Parish. Antoine never experienced
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Missouri v McNeely, 569 U. S. ____ , No. 11–1425, Slip op. (April 17, 2013) This is a U.S. Supreme Court case holding that metabolizing of alcohol is not a per se exigency that justifies a warrantless blood draw. In this multi-concurring
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Texas Department of Transportation, v Cash, NO. 09-12-00463-CV (Tex. App. – Eastland, April 18, 2013). This is a slip and fall case where the Court of Appeals reversed the denial of TxDOT’s Plea to the Jurisdiction. Cash fell allegedly due to a
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Odutayo d/b/a Samaritan Park and Ride v City of Houston NO. 01-12-00132-CV (Tex. App. – Houston [1st Dist] April 18, 2013). Odutayo leases parking spaces and golf carts to customers attending Reliant Stadium. In 2011 a golf cart driver was ticketed citing
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Franks v Zwicke, No. 04-12-00529-CV (Tex. App. – San Antonio, April 17, 2013) Franks is a pro se inmate who alleges deputies intentionally knocked out four of his teeth during his arrest for breaking into a county facility. The deputies filed a
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Agbolade O. Odutayo and Bonita Odutayo v. City of Houston, 01-12-00217-CV (Tex. App. – Houston [1st Dist] April 16, 2013). The First District Court of Appeals affirmed the granting of a plea to the jurisdiction in this inverse condemnation suit regarding a
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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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Waste Management of Texas, Inc. v Greg Abbott, 11-11-00112-CV (Tex. Civ. App. – Eastland, April 11, 2012). This is a Public Information Act (“PIA”) case against the Texas Attorney General (“AG”). Essentially, a PIA request was made for Waste Management’s (“WM”) “waste
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TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND CITY OF EDINBURG v. A.P.I. PIPE AND SUPPLY, No. 10-1020 (Tex. April 5, 2013) In an inverse-condemnation dispute, two judgments (one in 2003 and one in 2004) conflict as to the extent of the state’s easement. In
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