Legal Opinion
City of Laredo, Texas v. Laredo Merchants Association
Texas Supreme Court
Decided June 22, 2018No. 16-0748PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hecht
The roving, roiling debate over local control of public affairs has not, with increased age, lost any of its vigor. From public education 1 to immigration policy 2 to fracking 3 to shopping bags, the sides are always deeply divided. 4 "Judges have no dog in this fight. Our duty is to apply the rules fairly and equally to both sides." 5
The Texas Constitution states that city ordinances cannot conflict with state law. 6 The Texas Solid Waste Disposal Act ("the Act") provides that "[a] local government ... may not adopt an ordinance ... to ... prohibit or restrict, for solid waste management…
2Cases cited35 opinions
- Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla.Supreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Texas Department of Transportation v. NeedhamTexas Supreme Court · 2002
- TGS-NOPEC GEOPHYSICAL CO. v. CombsTexas Supreme Court · 2011
- McIntyre v. RamirezTexas Supreme Court · 2003
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3Cited by42 opinions
- Texas Association of Business National Federation of Independent Business, American Staffing Association LeadingEdge Personnel, Ltd. Staff Force, Inc. HT Staffing Ltd. D/B/A the HT Group The Burnett Companies Consolidated, Inc., D/B/A Burnett Specialists Society for Human Resource Management Texas State Council of the Society for Human Resource Management Austin Human Resource Management Association Strickland School, LLC And the State of Texas v. City of Austin, Texas, and Spencer Cronk, City Manager of the City of Austin, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2018
- in Re: Ashley Scott Echols, Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)2018
- the City of Fort Worth and David Cooke, in His Official Capacity as Fort Worth City Manager v. Stephannie Lynn Rylie, Texas C&D Amusements, Inc., and Brian and Lisa Scott D/B/A TSCA and D/B/A River Bottom Pub, Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth)2018
- 2020 Long Tail Trail Investments, LLC v. State of Texas, Attorney General Kenneth Paxton (In His Official Capacity), Acting Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Kelly Hancock (In His Official Capacity), and the Office of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas Court of Appeals, 15th District2025
- Ahmad Zaatari, Marwa Zaatari, Jennifer Gibson Hebert, Joseph "Mike" Hebert, Lindsay Redwine, Ras Redwine VI, and Tim Klitch// City of Austin, Texas And Steve Adler, Mayor of the City of Austin, and the State of Texas v. City of Austin, Texas And Steve Adler, Mayor of the City of Austin//Cross-Appellees, Ahmad Zaatari, Marwa Zaatari, Jennifer Gibson Hebert, Joseph "Mike" Hebert, Lindsay Redwine, Ras Redwine VI, and Tim Klitch, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2019
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