Texas Health Enterprises, Inc. v. Texas Department of Human Services

The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) provides that a party seeking judicial review of an agency’s decision “shall offer, and the reviewing court shall admit, the state agency record into evidence as an exhibit.” Tex. Gov’t Code § 2001.175(d). The issue in this cause is whether that provision precludes an appellate court from filing an administrative record that the parties and the district court treated as admitted evidence, although it was not formally tendered as evidence. We hold that the court of appeals should have filed the record, and we remand this cause to that court with…