City of Houston v. Bryant

OPINION

Evelyn V. Keyes, Justice

In this election contest, contestants/ap-pellees, Phillip Paul Bryant and James Scarborough, challenge a ballot measure concerning term limits for City of Houston elective offices. Following the November 3, 2015 election in which Houston voters approved a measure increasing term limits, Bryant filed this election contest, Scarborough intervened, and contestees/appel-lants, the City of Houston and Annise D. Parker (collectively “the City”), filed a plea to the jurisdiction asserting that Bryant and Scarborough had failed to invoke the trial court’s jurisdiction…