Texas Commission on Environmental Quality v. Rosaena Resendez

This case calls upon us to again apply the Texas Whistleblower Act. Rosaena Resendez was fired from her position at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) after she reported alleged wrongdoing to supervisors within the organization and to the office of a state senator. In Texas Department of Human Services v. Okoli, we recently reaffirmed that an internal report of wrongdoing does not trigger the Act’s protection unless it is made directly to an authority with outward-looking law-enforcement power. See 440 S.W.3d 611, 616 (Tex. 2014). The court of appeals held that Resendez’s…