Okpere v. National Oilwell Varco, L.P.

OPINION

Kem Thompson Frost, Chief Justice

In this appeal a discharged employee challenges the trial court’s dismissal of his disability-discrimination suit against his former employers. The trial court granted the employers’ summary-judgment motion, implicitly granting judgment on the ground that the discharged employee based his claim solely on specific evidence that constitutes inadmissible hearsay. We conclude the trial court correctly found the evidence to be inadmissible hearsay, but the trial court erred to the extent it granted summary judgment on this ground because the employee did not…