Garza v. Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission

in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice HECHT, Justice ENOCH, Justice OWEN, Justice HANKINSON, Justice O’NEILL, and Justice RODRIGUEZ joined.

This case involves the time period within which a district court must render judgment following an appeal to that court from an administrative order canceling, suspending, or refusing a liquor license. Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code section 11.67 provides that an appeal of a liquor license denial must be tried to the district court within ten days after it is filed. Tex. Alco. Bev.Code § 11.67(b)(2). Here, the district court conducted a hearing within…