Legal Opinion
Severance v. Patterson
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 23, 2009No. 07-20409PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:
Carol Severance filed suit against Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office Jerry Patterson, and Galveston County District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk (the “Officials”), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief to prevent them from enforcing a public easement under the Texas Open Beaches Act, Tex. Nat. Res.Code Ann. § 61.011(a) et seq. Severance contends that because the beach boundary of her property migrated landward after Hurricane Rita, taking in land not previously encumbered by a public access easement, the enforcement of…
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