Legal Opinion
Employees Retirement System of Texas v. Cynthia A. Garcia
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided December 18, 2014No. 03-12-00659-CVPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Bob Pemberton, Justice
This appeal presents questions of first impression regarding the availability of occupational-disability retirement benefits for Texas state employees following 2008 amendments that significantly limited the statutory definition of an “occupational disability.” As amended, the definition requires that an “occupational disability” “result[ ] ... solely from an extremely dangerous risk of severe physical or mental trauma ... that is not common to the public at large and that is peculiar to and inherent in a dangerous duty that arises from the nature and in the…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- City of Rockwall v. HughesTexas Supreme Court · 2008
- State v. ShumakeTexas Supreme Court · 2006
- Texas Department of Transportation v. City of Sunset ValleyTexas Supreme Court · 2004
- Texas Health Facilities Commission v. Charter Medical-Dallas, Inc.Texas Supreme Court · 1984
- Acker v. Texas Water CommissionTexas Supreme Court · 1990
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and Richard A. Hyde, Executive Director of TCEQ, Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)2017
- Cheng H. Mah v. Employee Retirement System of Texas And Ann Bishop, Executive Director of ERS, in Her Official Capacity, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)2015
- Citizens Against the Landfill in Hempstead Michael McCall Wayne Knox And the City of Hempstead v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and Pintail Landfill, L.L.C., Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2016
- Public Utility Commission of Texas and North Fort Bend Water Authority v. City of Fulshear, Texas, Texas Court of Appeals, 15th District2025
- R. P. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2017
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