City of Dallas v. Lowenberg

Opinion

JIM R. WRIGHT, Justice.

The focus of this class action lawsuit is upon a claim that a Dallas City ordinance is unconstitutional. The trial court ultimately denied summary judgment relief to the City of Dallas. The trial court granted a summary judgment for appellees in the amount of $1,847,454.36, representing refunds of monies paid by appellees under the ordinance as well as prejudgment in terest. That amount also includes attorneys’ fees that the court found to be payable by the City after a separate trial on attorneys’ fees. Because we find that ap-pellees’ claims are barred by…