Houston Municipal Employees Pension System v. Ferrell

in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice HECHT, Justice O’NEILL, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice BRISTER, Justice MEDINA, and Justice JOHNSON joined.

This case concerns whether members of the Houston Municipal Employees Pension System (HMEPS) may bring a declaratory judgment action to declare their rights under the statute that created HMEPS even when, as HMEPS argues, that statute provides no right to judicial review of decisions by HMEPS’s pension board. HMEPS sought the dismissal, for want of jurisdiction, of an action for injunctive relief and declaratory judgment brought by Craig E. Ferrell,…