Sustainable Texas Oyster Resource Management L.L.C. v. Hannah Reef, Inc.

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Laura Carter Higley, Justice

Oystermen (1) Hannah Reef, Inc., (2) Shrimps R Us, (3) Ivo Slabic, and (4) Michael Ivic seek to enforce property rights conferred to them under leases entitling them to cultivate and harvest oysters in certain parts of Galveston Bay and to enforce their rights to fish for oysters in public waters pursuant to licenses issued by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, an agency of the State of Texas. In 2014, the Chambers-Liberty Counties Navigation District (“the Navigation District”), to which the State had conveyed submerged land within Galveston and…