John Thompson v. Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation

Where a statutory term is undefined, that term is imbued -with the plain meaning as commonly understood at the time of enactment. This appeal involves a provision of the Texas Occupations Code concerning licensing restrictions where an applicant has previously been convicted of a crime. , Here, an agency overruled an administrative law judge’s determination that a candidate for licensure qualified as rehabilitated. The court of appeals upheld the agency’s action. But the agency’s revision is unsupported by the plain language of the statute. Because the court of appeals upheld the agency’s…