Legal Opinion
Alobaidi v. University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)
Decided October 30, 2007No. 14-06-00303-CVPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KEM THOMPSON FROST, Justice.
In this retaliatory-discharge case, a former employee challenges the trial court’s order granting the plea to the jurisdiction filed by her former employer, a university center. The former employee contends that (1) the university center waived sovereign immunity by previously having pursued an appeal of her workers’ compensation award and (2) prohibiting her from using the state courts to pursue her Labor Code chapter 451 retaliatory discharge claim 1 against that institution violates the state and federal equal protection, due process, and due course of…
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