Legal Opinion
In re Woodfill
Texas Supreme Court
Decided July 24, 2015No. 14-0667PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Per curiam
Residents of the City of Houston filed a referendum petition requesting the City Council to reconsider and repeal its equal rights ordinance and, if it did not repeal the ordinance, to put it to popular vote. The City Council refused, claiming the petition'was invalid. Though the ordinance is steeped in controversy, the legal principles at play are relatively simple. First, “the power of... referendum ... is the exercise by the people of a power reserved to them,” and this power should be protected. Taxpayers’ Ass’n of Harris Cnty. v. City of Houston, 129 Tex. 627, 105 S.W.2d 655, 657 (1937).…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Anderson v. City of Seven PointsTexas Supreme Court · 1991
- Blum v. LanierTexas Supreme Court · 1999
- Glass v. SmithTexas Supreme Court · 1951
- In Re Union Carbide Corp.Texas Supreme Court · 2008
- In Re AngeliniTexas Supreme Court · 2006
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3Cited by48 opinions
- F. Williams, Sr. v. Annise ParkerCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2016
- in Re F.N. Williams, Sr., and Jared WoodfillTexas Supreme Court · 2015
- In re PerezCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2016
- the City of Cleveland, Niki Coats, in His Official Capacity as Mayor of the City of Cleveland and Angela Smith, in Her Official Capacity as City Secretary of the City of Cleveland v. Keep Cleveland SafeCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2016
- In re DornTexas Supreme Court · 2015
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