Hunt County Community Supervision and Corrections Department v. Christina Gaston, 03-13-00189-CV (Tex. App. – Austin, August 6, 2014). This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a plea to the jurisdiction in a Texas Whistleblower Act lawsuit. A majority panel of
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April Dupree Adeshile v. Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, 14-12-00980-CV (Tex. App. – Houston [14th dist.], July 24, 2014). This is a sex discrimination employment lawsuit where the panel withdrew its opinion issued on January 16, 2014 and substituted this
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Christopher Jenkins v. City of Cedar Park, Texas, 03-13-00215-CV (Tex. App. – Austin, July 24, 2014). This is a Chapter 143 civil service appeal from an indefinite suspension of a fire fighter where the Austin Court of Appeals affirmed the City’s plea
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The University of Houston v. John Casey, 01-13-00684-CV (Tex. App. – Houston [1st Dist.], July 3, 2014_ This is an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a plea to the jurisdiction in a Texas Whistleblower Act case. The 1st District Court of
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Arnold Ochoa v. The City of Palmview, 13-14-00021-CV (Tex. App. – Corpus Christi, January 19, 2014) This is an interlocutory appeal from the granting of a plea to the jurisdiction in an employment context. Ochoa was an assistant police chief with the
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Office of The Attorney General v. Ginger Weatherspoon, 05-13-00632-CV (Tex. App. – Dallas, June 16, 2014). This is a Texas Whistleblower Act case in which the trial court denied the plea to the jurisdiction filed by the Texas Attorney General (“AG”) and
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CITY OF HOUSTON v. SHAYN A. PROLER, 12-1006, –S.W.3d — (Tex. June 6, 2014) This is a disability discrimination case where the Court held that a firefighter who refuses to fight fires does not have a “disability” under either state or
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Chad Thompson v. City of Waco, Texas and Fire Chief John D. Johnston, 04-13-00460-CV (Tex. App. – San Antonio, May 30, 2014)(transferred from 10th COA pursuant to Supreme Court Order 13-9097). This is a civil service dispute where the trial court ruled
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City of Austin v. Raymond E. Chandler, et al., 03-12-00057-CV (Tex. App. – Austin, April 18, 2014). This is a substituted opinion for one the court issued on February 7, 2014. The original summary and opinion can be found here. Essentially, several
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CITY OF BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS v. MARCO LONGORIA AND THE BROWNSVILLE FIRE FIGHTERS’ ASSOCIATION, 13-12-00224-CV (Tex. App. – Corpus Christi, April 3, 2014) This is a collective bargaining case where the fire fighter’s association attempted to invoke a provision allowing it to
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