Legal Opinion
City of Houston v. Downstream Environmental, L.L.C.
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided June 12, 2014No. 01-12-01091-CVPublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION ON REHEARING
MICHAEL MASSENGALE, Justice.
This is an interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s order denying the City of *29Houston’s plea to the jurisdiction. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & RemCode Ann. § 51.014(a)(8) (West Supp.2012). Downstream Environmental, L.L.C. sued the City for damages that allegedly arose when the discharge line between Downstream’s liquid waste disposal facility and the City’s sewer system was temporarily closed. The lawsuit also implicates rate increases and a billing dispute that occurred after the temporary closure of the discharge valve. In addition to seeking…
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