Trinity Settlement Services, LLC v. Texas State Securities Board

OP/JVION

DAVID PURYEAR, Judge.

This is an appeal from a grant of a plea to the jurisdiction stemming from a dispute regarding the Texas State Securities Board’s regulation of the sale of viatical settlements. Appellant Trinity Settlement *498Services, LLC (Trinity), an entity proposing to engage in the sale of viatical settlements, sued appellees the Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) and John Morgan, in his official capacity as Commissioner of the TSSB, to obtain a declaratory judgment (1) that the TSSB and Morgan acted without statutory authority in an enforcement action against another…