Hunt County Community Supervision and Corrections Department v. Christina Gaston

OPINION

BOB PEMBERTON, Justice.

We withdraw our opinion, dissenting opinion, and judgment dated August 6, 2014, and substitute the following in their place. We overrule the motion for rehearing filed by appellee, Christina Gaston.

This is an appeal of a trial court order denying a plea to the jurisdiction in a Whistleblower suit. The key issue presented is whether, for purposes of the Whistleblower Act’s waiver of sovereign and governmental immunity, a state district judge was an “appropriate law enforcement authority” to whom alleged “violations of law” could be “reported.” We conclude that the…