Legal Opinion
Cyndy Zamora v. Tarrant County Hospital District D/B/A JPS Health Network
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
Decided April 8, 2016No. 08-14-00104-CVPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
YVONNE T. RODRIGUEZ, Justice
Cyndy Zamora (“Zamora”) timely filed a wrongful termination suit against her state government employer, the Tarrant County Hospital District (“the Hospital”), ten days before the jurisdictional filing deadline set by Tex. Lab. Code Ann. § 21.254 (West 2015) expired. However, her attorney failed to serve the Hospital with citation until twenty-eight days after that deadline expired because the district clerk letter containing citation got lost in the shuffle at his office in the days leading up to his Christmas vacation. The trial court granted the Hospital’s…
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