Kshatrya v. Texas Workforce Commission

OPINION

Opinion By

Justice WHITTINGTON.

Bakulesh Kshatrya appeals the trial court’s order granting the Texas Workforce Commission’s and Riddle Technologies, Inc.’s pleas to the jurisdiction. The order dismissed Kshatrya’s claims asserted under section 61.051 of the Texas Labor Code and struck his amended petition asserting common law claims for fraud and breach of contract. See Tex. Lab.Code Ann. § 61.051 (Vernon 1996). In two issues, Kshatrya contends the trial judge erred in concluding Kshatrya’s failure to file suit in the county mandated by the labor code deprived the trial court of…