Legal Opinion
Ballesteros v. Nueces County
Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District
Decided May 14, 2009No. 13-06-00405-CVPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*568OPINION ON REHEARING
Opinion On Rehearing by
Justice BENAVIDES.
We grant appellant’s motion for rehearing, deny his motion for rehearing en banc, vacate and withdraw our opinion dated August 31, 2007, and issue this opinion on rehearing in its place.
On March 21, 2006, appellant, Joe Guadalupe Ballesteros, sued Nueces County, Texas, under section 451.001 of the labor code. See Tex. Lab.Code Ann. § 451.001 (Vernon 2006) (prohibiting the firing of an employee for, among other things, filing “a worker’s compensation claim in good faith”). Nueces County filed a “Plea to the Jurisdiction and Motion to…
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