Legal Opinion
Gattis v. Duty
Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)
Decided August 24, 2011No. 03-10-00833-CVPublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOB PEMBERTON, Justice.
In this interlocutory appeal from the denial of a plea to the jurisdiction, the principal issue we must decide is whether the county attorney of Williamson County, in either her individual or official capacity, has standing to sue the county commissioners court for allegedly violating the Open Meetings Act and local government code in the course of making budgetary transfers that negatively impacted the county attorney’s office. Concluding that the county attorney does not have standing with respect to any justiciable claim, we must reverse the order denying the…
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