University Interscholastic League v. Payne

COUNTISS, Justice.

This appeal by the University Interscholastic League and certain of its officials (hereafter collectively “the U.I.L.”), represented by the Attorney General of Texas, challenges the propriety of a temporary injunction rendered by the trial court in favor of appellees Richard Payne and others. Because we have detected a fatal jurisdictional error by the U.I.L., we do not reach the merits of the controversy and must dismiss the appeal.

The question, raised by the court sua sponte because we must ascertain the existence of our jurisdiction in each case, Lamka v. Townes, 465…