Spiller v. Texas Department of Insurance

ABOUSSIE, Justice.

Employees fired by the Texas Department of Insurance appeal the trial court’s resolution of the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment. At trial, appellants challenged the reduction in force on several fronts; the issue relevant to this appeal is their contention that the reduction was void because the State Board of Insurance, the Department’s supervisory body, approved it in an illegally closed meeting. Appellants raise nine points of error. Eight are variations on the theme that the trial court, though correctly finding a violation of the Open Meetings Act, erred by…