Legal Opinion · Dissent

Bland Independent School District v. Blue

Texas Supreme Court

Decided December 7, 2000No. 99-0231Published

1DissentPhillips, Chief Justice

Our jurisdiction to consider this interlocutory appeal depends on the existence of a conflict between the court of appeals’ opinion below and some prior decision from another court of appeals or this Court. Tex.Gov’t Code § 22.225. Such a conflict must be well-defined “upon a question of law involved and determined and such that one decision would overrule the other if both were rendered by the same court.” Garcia v. American Nat’l Ins. Co., 124 Tex. 466, 78 S.W.2d 170, 170 (1935); see also Christy v. Williams, 156 Tex. 555, 298 S.W.2d 565, 567 (1957) (rulings in the two cases must be so far…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Southwestern Refining Co., Inc. v. BernalTexas Supreme Court · 2000
  2. Coastal Corp. v. GarzaTexas Supreme Court · 1998
  3. Richards v. AllenTexas Supreme Court · 1966
  4. Christy v. WilliamsTexas Supreme Court · 1957
  5. Dockum v. Mercury InsuranceTexas Supreme Court · 1940

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