City of Garland v. Dallas Morning News

delivered a plurality opinion,

in which Justice HANKINSON, Justice O’NEILL, and Justice GONZALES joined.

This case involves interpreting the Texas Public Information Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 552 (the Act),1 and presents several issues: (1) whether a governmental body can bring a declaratory judgment action against a requestor of information under the Act; (2) whether the memorandum at issue in this case is public information subject to the Act; (3) whether the Act’s agency memoranda exception incorporates the deliberative process privilege, and if so, whether it exempts the memorandum…