In Re Jared Woodfill et al, 14-0667 (Tex. July 24, 2015) This is a mandamus action to compel a referendum to repeal the City of Houston’s “equal rights ordinances” be placed on the November ballot. This dispute concerns the duties of the
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City of Ingleside v City of Corpus Christi, 14-0548 (Tex. July 24, 2015) This declaratory-judgment action involves a boundary dispute between the City of Ingleside and the City of Corpus Christi over the scope of an ordinance establishing the adjacent bay waters’
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Sheryl Taylor v. State of Texas and Texas Department of Criminal Justice 11-13-00207-CV (Tex. App. –Eastland, July 24, 2015) This is a retaliation case brought under the Texas Labor Code in which the Eastland Court of Appeals affirmed the granting of the
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City Of Dallas and Larry Holmes, in his Official Capacity as Chief Building Official for the City of Dallas v. East Village Association, 05-14-01406-CV (Tex. App. –Dallas July 21, 2015. This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a plea
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City of Laredo, Texas v. Julian Jacobo Reyna, 04-15-00147-CV (Tex. App. – San Antonio, July 22, 2015) This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a plea to the jurisdiction in a Texas Tort Claims Act (“TTCA”) case where the San
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City of Austin, Texas v. Jamil Cherry 03-14-00212-CV (Tex. App. – Austin, July 21, 2015) This is an interlocutory appeal in a Texas Tort Claims Act case in which the Austin Court of Appeals reversed the denial of a plea to the
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City of San Antonio v. Casey Industrial, Inc. 04-14-00429-CV (Tex. App. – San Antonio, July 1, 2015) This is an immunity in contract case where the Fourth Court of Appeals reversed the denial of a jurisdictional challenge to a breach of contract
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ASHISH PATEL, et al v. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATION, et al, 12-0657 (Tex. June 26, 2015) In this regulation case, the Texas Supreme Court held the Texas regulation for licensing of eyebrow threaders (the “Threaders”) is not rationally related to
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GREATER HOUSTON PARTNERSHIP v. KEN PAXTON 13-0745 (Tex. June 26, 2015) This is a Public Information Act (“PIA”) case where the Texas Supreme Court holds that contrary to the Attorney General’s interpretation, certain private entities contacting with the state are not subject
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Obergefell v. Hodges 14–556 (June 26, 2015). The U.S. Supreme Court held the Fourteenth Amendment requires a State to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to recognize a same sex marriage when lawfully licensed and performed out-of-State.
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