Legal Opinion
Jacklyn Worfel Mayfield and Lori Beth Mayfield v. Tarrant Regional Water District
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
Decided June 11, 2015No. 08-13-00100-CVPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUSAN LARSEN, Justice (Senior Judge)
Appellants/plaintiffs Jacklyn Worfel Mayfield and Lori Beth Mayfield 1 appeal the granting of Appellee/defendant Tar-rant Regional Water District’s plea to the jurisdiction. We affirm.
FACTS
Plaintiffs filed a suit under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act for gender discrimination and retaliation against their former employer, Tarrant Regional Water District. The water district filed a plea to the jurisdiction, urging that the plaintiffs’ petition did not make claims sufficient to overcome the district’s sovereign immunity. The trial court…
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