Lone Star Helicopters, Inc. v. State

OPALA, Vice Chief Justice.

This certiorari proceeding tenders the following dispositive issue: Is this breach-of-contract action fraught with a fatal remedial impediment because the plaintiff, who was aggrieved by a decision of the Office of Public Affairs, had abandoned the agency’s rule-prescribed administrative review process before it reached a “final” decision stage? We answer in the negative and hold that because the administrative remedy in question does not afford the plaintiff adequate relief, the exhaustion-of-remedies doctrine is not invocable as a bar to this action.

The appellant,…