Legal Opinion

Fort Bend Independent School District v. Alice Gayle

Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)

Decided April 5, 2012No. 01-11-00788-CVPublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

HARVEY BROWN, Justice.

Fort Bend Independent School District (the “school”) appeals from the trial court’s denial of its plea to the jurisdiction, which challenges Alice Gayle’s whistleblower suit against the school. In three issues, the school contends that the trial court erred in denying its plea to the jurisdiction because Gayle failed to “initiate” the school’s grievance procedures — a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit. Because we conclude that Gayle properly initiated the school’s grievance procedure before filing her whis- tleblower action, we affirm the trial court’s denial of…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Texas Department of Parks & Wildlife v. MirandaTexas Supreme Court · 2004
  2. Texas Ass'n of Business v. Texas Air Control BoardTexas Supreme Court · 1993
  3. Bland Independent School District v. BlueTexas Supreme Court · 2000
  4. State Ex Rel. State Department of Highways & Public Transportation v. GonzalezTexas Supreme Court · 2002
  5. Gregg County v. Farrar, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)1996

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3Cited by18 opinions

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  2. Whitney v. El Paso Indep. Sch. Dist.Court of Appeals of Texas · 2017
  3. Adan Perez Jr. v. Weslaco Independent School District, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2015
  4. Adan Perez Jr. v. Weslaco Independent School District, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2015
  5. City of Bertram, Texas v. Vicki Reinhardt, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2015

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