Legal Opinion
City of Houston v. Houston Gulf Coast Building
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided September 26, 1985No. 01-85-0649-CVPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EVANS, Justice.
The City of Houston appeals from a temporary injunction that prohibits the City Council from adopting average wage rates as the wage rates to be paid to workers on public works projects. We hold that the trial court erred in granting the temporary injunction, and we order the injunction dissolved and the proceedings dismissed.
Houston Gulf Coast Building and Construction Trades Council and its executive secretary, Gale Van Hoy, brought this action to enjoin the City from adopting a weighted average wage survey as the “prevailing” wage rate applicable to public works…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- City of Dallas v. Dallas Consolidated Street Railway Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1912
- TEXAS STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS IN OPTOMETRY v. CarpTexas Supreme Court · 1961
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